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white damp
noun
- a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
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Origin of white damp1
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Example Sentences
There is also "white-damp," the gas which you see burning with a pretty blue flame over a hot coal fire.
Carbon monoxide was pouring out, the deadly white damp, that kills as it strikes!
From time to time he was seized by convulsive fits; resembling those of epilepsy, and characteristic of white damp poisoning.
You know, it is a product of combustion, and is very deadly—it is the much-dreaded white damp or afterdamp of a mine explosion.
Pretty nearly all the cases of poisoning in mines are due to 'white damp.'
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