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Definition of Chokedamp
1. Noun. The atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life.
Definition of Chokedamp
1. Noun. (context: mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chokedamp
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Chokedamp
Literary usage of Chokedamp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mine Gases and Explosions: Text-book for Schools and Colleges and for by James Thom Beard (1908)
"Later a distinction was made between the different mine gases, which had previously
been regarded as one, and the terms chokedamp or ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"We found when we ceased blowing in gas that after a time the chokedamp receded
in the upcast, and that whenever we blew it into the downcast, it poured out ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"We found when we ceased blowing in gas that after a time the chokedamp receded
in the upcast, and that whenever we blew it into the downcast, it poured out ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"Not less than 8000000 cubic feet of chokedamp were injected into the mine at the
rate of 7000 cubic feet per minute, and it being ascertained that the mine ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1854)
"The “chokedamp “swept among them, and the poor fellows fell perhaps instantly,
in heaps, where they were afterwards found, some still living, and afterwards ..."
6. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"chokedamp, firedamp, wild fire, sulphur and water, at all times menace instant
death to the laborers in these mines." "Robert North, aged 16: Went into the ..."
7. The Pro-slavery Argument, as Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of by William Harper, James Henry Hammond, William Gilmore Simms, Thomas Roderick Dew (1852)
""chokedamp, firedamp, wild 6re, sulphur and water, at all times menace instant
death to the laborers in these mines." " Robert North, aged 16 : Went into ..."
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