Their "firedamp" (formerly fulminating damp) is marsh gas, which, when mixed with air and exploded, produced "choke damp," "after damp," or "suffocating damp" (carbon dioxide). [Please select]
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They met with a little choke-damp sometimes, but never with the explosive firedamp so common in coal-mines. [Please select]
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An example of a hydrocarbon or compound of carbon and hydrogen, is marsh gas (methane) or firedamp, CH_{4}. [Please select]
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It was a heavy gas, like firedamp, and it must have asphyxiated the inhabitants before they were touched by the fire, which quickly followed. [Please select]
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It is believed that Mont Pelee threw off a great gasp of some exceedingly heavy and noxious gas, something akin to firedamp, which settled upon the city and rendered the inhabitants insensible. [Please select]
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