AFTERDAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afterdamp mean? 

• AFTERDAMP (noun)
  The noun AFTERDAMP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: AFTERDAMP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFTERDAMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("afterdamp" is a kind of...):

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)