On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion
The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years; but there is also a certain quantity produced by the workings. The author was informed by Mr. Hodgson, that if a cask be f...
| Published in: | Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1833
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1815.0024 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1815.0024 |
| Summary: | The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years; but there is also a certain quantity produced by the workings. The author was informed by Mr. Hodgson, that if a cask be filled with a quantity of recently pounded coal, and a small aperture be made in it, inflammable gas will issue from the aperture. In several specimens of fire-damp which the author has analysed, the inflammable part was the same in all; in some instances mixed with a small quantity of common air, in others with azote and carbonic acid. The purest contained only 1/13th of atmospheric air. One measure of this gas required nearly two measures of oxygen for its combustion, and formed nearly one measure of carbonic acid. |
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