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Definition of Sewer gas
1. Noun. Foul-smelling gas that forms in sewers.
Medical Definition of Sewer gas
1. Gas, probably mostly methane, resulting from decomposition of organic matter in sewers; potentially explosive and toxic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sewer Gas
Literary usage of Sewer gas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1882)
"THE sewer gas NUISANCE AND ITS REMEDY. ... in the form of defective drainage,
allowing a free escape of sewer gas and specific germ poisons to enter their ..."
2. The Law Relating to Oil and Gas: Including Oil and Gas Leases and Contracts by William Wheeler Thornton (1904)
"Illuminating gas driving sewer gas into house. If illuminating or natural gas is
negligently permitted to escape into a sewer in such a quantity as to shove ..."
3. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"... and furnishing workmen with electric lights or safety lamps to replace ordinary
lanterns. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES OF DEATH ATTRIBUTED TO sewer gas Case No. ..."
4. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"ILLUSTRATIVE CASES OF DEATH ATTRIBUTED TO sewer gas Case No. 1.—The main sewer
of the town of Severe, Mass., discharges into the sea near the southerly end ..."
5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1887)
"Even a small leak in the soil-pipe, in consequence of the steady escape of
sewer-gas, will suffice to contaminate a large air space, especially when the air ..."
6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"Now look at sewer-gas, for instance. Sewer-gas has always been wasted heretofore;
nobody tried to save up sewer-gas — you can't name me a man. ..."
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