marsh-gas

Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

A Progressive on the Prairie » Musing Mondays: Holiday reading » Print 2009

Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Musing Mondays: Holiday reading « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009

Fire-damp, marsh-gas, or carburetted hydrogen, is colorless, almost scentless; it burns with a blue flame, and makes respiration impossible.

The Underground City 2003

The long-gone ghosts of the War seemed to gather here in the sad damp of an acrid bog, with the faint scents of marsh-gas and moss blowing in the wind, carrying the faint call of spindle-legged mudwalkers and the sound of bitter voices.

Villains by Necessity Forward, Eve 1995

They were the two elements of the atmosphere (oxygen and nitrogen), nitric oxide, marsh-gas, carbonic oxide, and hydrogen.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various

On the other hand, a certain quantity of air in acetylene helps to prevent burner troubles by acting as a mere diluent (albeit an inferior one to methane or marsh-gas), and therefore it has been proposed intentionally to add air to the gas before consumption, such a process being in regular use on the large scale in some places abroad.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

Chiefly marsh-gas with ethane and some carbonic acid.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various

C_nH_ (2n+2), of which methane or marsh-gas, CH_4 is the best known, may be produced; and those all possess lower illuminating powers than acetylene.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

Chiefly marsh-gas, with small quantities of nitrogen and

Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various

During the oil excitement of some years since, when the whole country was hunted over for "oil sign," in many lagoons, from which bubbles of marsh-gas were constantly escaping, films of genuine petroleum were found on the surface; and as the underlying strata were barren of oil, this could only have been derived from the decaying vegetable tissue below.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various