afterdamp


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a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine

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They could suffocate from a mix of poisonous gases known as "afterdamp." If none of these kill them, black lung might.
A fall of King Coal
Those miners not killed immediately by the fire and explosion would have died quickly from afterdamp, the noxious gases formed by combustion.
THE DAY 440 MINERS DIED AND A COMMUNITY MOURNED; Community unveils memorial to pay tribute to the dead of Wales' worst colliery disaster... Senghenydd 100 years on Jonathan Evans reports on the unveiling of the Welsh National Mining Memorial to commemorate the 1913 Senghenydd tragedy in which hundreds of miners lost their lives and to remember all those who have lost their lives in mining disasters across Wales
Afterdamp (a deadly mix of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen) was present in great quantities and fires were burning in the depths of the mine, so rescue work was hinderered.
Lost ghosts of a terrible disaster
The fires spread through most of the underground workings, quickly followed by afterdamp, deadly gasses formed by the explosion.
DAD WAS LAST MAN TO BE PULLED OUT OF THAT PIT ALIVE; The 1913 Senghenydd Colliery disaster casts a grim shadow over the nation to this day. On the eve of the tragedy's centenary, SION MORGAN looks back at one of the bleakest days in Welsh history..
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