FIRE-DAMP

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 7

is the ordinary name for} couth the carburetted hydrogen which i ues } Irelanc ‘from “* blowers ” or fi ures in coal seams. | Crusta Itisinfammabie and, when mixed with air | includ ‘tn certain proportions, is highly explosive. | caught Its +o ase is attended by the danger of | and cr an t explosion of coal dust. nets, a [s. 144]