When exploded by electricity, as in the previous case, no flame was produced, nor was the firedamp ignited.
That this mixture was firedamp was proved by the introduction of a safety lamp, the flame of which was elongated, showing what miners call the "blue cap.
Filling retorts by machineryFiredamp Fire, mines on First light oils First record of an explosion Flashing-point of oil Flooding of pits Fog and smoke Foraminifera Fossil ferns Fructification on fossil-ferns Furnace, ventilating G.
Firedamp Testing Station] In the backing wall was fitted a large mortar of cast steel, which in carrying out the tests served to replace the borehole used in actual mining operations.
There being no continuous current of firedamp at disposal, use was made of illuminating gas in preparing the explosive mixtures for the tests.
You see Mr. Firedamp has got as far as possible out of his way.
Mr. Firedamp had no doubt he had been crossing a mountain bog, and had been suddenly deprived of life by the exhalations of marsh miasmata.
When the firedamp had accumulated in the air, so as to form a detonating mixture, the explosion occurred without being fatal, and, by often renewing this operation, catastrophes were prevented.
But I knew the plan, and by its means I discovered the presence of firedamp and consequently that of a new seam of coal in the Dochart pit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firedamp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
