Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 279
e same gas as the terrible fire-damp thatcauses explosions in coal-mines. It accumulates wherever vegetable matterrots under water, as in other places where theair is shut out. For example, it is formed plen-tifully in brooks and rivers where sawdust hassettled in large quantities. A few years ago… … APPLYING A LIGHTED ICH TO THE EXPLOSIVE BUBBLES. place in the river, and in decaying gave off somuch gas that people became excited about it.Natural gas and coal were probably made insome such way from leaves, wood, moss, and igoo.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. other vegetable matter, only…
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