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.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    chance of being the moft pure, as being in lefs danger of its putrefaction: and wherever water is in danger of ftagnating and giving out vapour, it ought to be a piece of duty ftriCtly attended to, to direct a dream of pure water at fhort intervals into thefe places, fo as to dilute and fweeten the whole, that they may be pumped out. Such places will be increafed in their natural tendency to putre- faction, fhould pieces of timber, chips of wood, or the foil of horfes, &c. as formerly mentioned, be allowed to mix in the water. The temperature of a deep mine is much the fame in winter as in fummer, being unaffected by the fun ; but it ought to be known, that increaled heat greatly favors the reparation of the condiment principles of the water, and fa- cilitates the new combinations. A number of # - lights, and the pitmen heated with work, will foon heat a fmall fpace fo as to exemplify this faft.