| 单词 | gas blower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgas blower gas blower n. (a) Coal Mining a stream of explosive gas emanating from a fissure in a mine; cf. blower n.1 4 (now historical and rare); (b) a blower (blower n.1 3a, 3b) for producing a stream of gas. ΚΠ 1832 Mechanics' Mag. 26 May 122/1 I supposed that we had come upon a large gas blower for the whole of the eastern part of the colliery. 1842 U.S. Patent 2,506 1/2 Fig. 2 is the gas blower and is situated above the top of the gas flue, and shuts down and completely covers the top of the grate. 1882 Rep. Head Dept. Commonw. Pennsylvania 1881–2 II. 139 Dynamite..did not ignite the gas blowers so readily as powder. 1883 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 11 Dec. 2/6 The fire was caused by a gas-blower exploding near the furnace shell. 1971 C. J. White Introd. Coal Mining Industry vii. 77 Efforts were sometimes made to pipe these ‘gas blowers’, as they were called. 2005 Nucl. Engin. Internat. (Nexis) 14 Dec. 20 The gas blower designed to extract the steam-air mixture from the ALS through the filter. < as lemmas |
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