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- noun Plural form of
firedamp .
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You will find them down, to-day, among the firedamps in the mines, to-morrow among the splendid pinnacles of the mountains, to settle a fact of science, or add a mite to human knowledge.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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