Defn: Unfit for respiration; not having the qualities necessary to support animal life; as, irrespirable air.
The term applied by miners to carbonic anhydride (carbonic acid) and other irrespirablegases and vapours evolved in mines.
Under ordinary conditions carbonic acid is a colourless, non-inflammable, irrespirable gas, possessing a slightly pungent odour, and an acidulous taste.
It was apparent that these animals, as well as the squirrels and insects, had not met their death by violence, but had been asphyxiated by the irrespirable gas given off in the gulch.
Working with Diving Gear inIrrespirable Gases (Mayer System)--Appliances in the Shaft.
This article will consider all of these except drowning and irrespirable gases, which are treated of elsewhere by other writers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irrespirable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
