单词 | chokedamp |
释义 | chokedamp (once / 3939771 pages) n WORD FAMILY chokedamp USAGE EXAMPLES"Chokedamp, firedamp, wild fire, sulphur and water, at all times menace instant death to the laborers in these mines." Elliott, E. N., Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arg...(2010) The old miner woke him, saying: "Rummy stuff this here chokedamp; see, they all dies drunk!" Galsworthy, John, Villa Rubein, and other stories(2010) n the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life Syn|Hyper blackdamp CO2, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid gas a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis |
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