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单词 irrespirable
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irrespirableadj.

/ɪrɪˈspʌɪərəb(ə)l//ɪˈrɛspɪrəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < ir- prefix2 + respirable adj., or < French irrespirable (1779 in Hatzfeld and Darmesteter), < late Latin irrespīrābilis (Tertullian), < ir- (ir- prefix2) + respīrāre to respire v.: see -able suffix.
Not respirable; unfit for respiration.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adjective] > of poisonous gas or noxious exhalation
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irrespirable1822
the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > of or relating to or of nature of noxious vapour > not breathable (of gas)
irrespirable1822
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 552 Produced by inhaling carbonic acid or some other irrespirable exhalation.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxviii. 410 The mud-volcanoes of South America, Italy, and the Caspian Sea, which..vomit muddy clay, naphtha, and irrespirable gases.
1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. ii. ii. 266 Some gases are irrespirable, on account of their causing spasm of the glottis.
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