A proposal for destroying the fire and choak-damps of coal-mines : and their production explained on the principles of modern chemistry addressed to the owners and agents of coal-works, &c / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Thomas Trotter
Date:
1805
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Credit: A proposal for destroying the fire and choak-damps of coal-mines : and their production explained on the principles of modern chemistry addressed to the owners and agents of coal-works, &c / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    burn and animals breathe in the place whence the vapour was diflodged. That the diffuflon of the water might be more fpeedy in diflolv- ing the choak-damp, the tube might be fitted after the manner of a garden watering pot, fo as to fprinkle and break the fluid into a £hower. This kind of air being fpeedily attra&ed by quick lime, by mixing that article in the water which is to be diffufed would ftill more effec- tually diflodge the choak-damp; and in places where it happens to be collected in great quan- tity, fuch a mixture would be highly fervice- able. It ought to be remembered, whenever either fire-damp or choak-damp are deteded in coal- pits, that there will be reafon to fear a collec- tion of the other near the fpot, if not power- fully ventilated: for it is without doubt, that they are invariably generated by the fame pro- cefs, and at the fame time.
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