Methane, especially as forming an explosive mixture with air in coal mines.
沼气，甲烷；（尤指煤矿中的）瓦斯
Example sentencesExamples
Once, 14-year-olds went down the pit and were vulnerable to explosions of firedamp and coal dust, to rock falls and inrushes of clay, sand and water.
The land, off Newhill Road in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, is one of the worst areas in the country to be affected by methane gas - known by miners as firedamp - leaching through the ground from disused mine workings.
Eruptions of natural gas were observed from very early times and the dangers of firedamp in mines were soon realized.
As the coal was worked, large cavities were left which filled with firedamp.
Underground in caves there was never really much need for running unless careful planning failed and a shaft fell in, or a patch of firedamp or bad air turned up.
Definition of firedamp in US English:
firedamp
nounˈfī(ə)rˌdampˈfaɪ(ə)rˌdæmp
Methane, especially as forming an explosive mixture with air in coal mines.
沼气，甲烷；（尤指煤矿中的）瓦斯
Example sentencesExamples
Once, 14-year-olds went down the pit and were vulnerable to explosions of firedamp and coal dust, to rock falls and inrushes of clay, sand and water.
Eruptions of natural gas were observed from very early times and the dangers of firedamp in mines were soon realized.
As the coal was worked, large cavities were left which filled with firedamp.
Underground in caves there was never really much need for running unless careful planning failed and a shaft fell in, or a patch of firedamp or bad air turned up.
The land, off Newhill Road in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, is one of the worst areas in the country to be affected by methane gas - known by miners as firedamp - leaching through the ground from disused mine workings.