Mine Gases

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Mine Gases

• What am I?

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What Am I?

• I am found in high places.
• I am odorless
• I am tasteless
• I am colorless
• I am extremely explosive
• I have a SG of 0.0695
• I am Hydrogen

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What am I?

• I am found everywhere (not hi or low)
• I am an asphyxiant in concentrations
• I am colorless
• I am odorless
• I am tasteless
• I am slightly water soluble
• My SG is 0.967
• I make up 78 of our atmosphere
• I am Nitrogen

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What am I?

• I am odorless
• I am found near roofs and backs
• I am tasteless
• I am colorless
• I am somewhat water soluble
• I am responsible for many, many miners deaths
• I will explode when concentrated between 5 and
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• I am Methane

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What Am I?

• I am water soluble
• I am found everywhere (not hi or low)
• I am odorless, colorless and tasteless
• I am used in industry and medicine
• My SG is 1.105
• I keep fires burning
• Without me you die!
• I am Oxygen

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What am I?

• I have no color or taste
• I prefer to stay low in mine air
• I smell of petroleum
• I am used in industry and at home
• I assist you feeding your family many weekends
• I am explosive between 2 and 9
• My SG is 1.563
• I am Propane

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What am I?

• I am colorless and tasteless
• I smell pretty nasty
• I am slightly lighter than mine air
• I am highly explosive
• I am one of the most used gasses in industry
• My SG is 0.9107
• I am Acetylene

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What am I?

• I am told I taste sweet
• I am very explosive
• I am water soluble
• I will kill you rapidly when concentrated
• I have no color
• I smell rotten
• My SG is 1.19
• I will explode between 4 and 45
• I am Hydrogen Sulfide

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What am I?

• I dont smell
• I have no taste or color
• I am explosive
• I am found everywhere in a mine (not hi or low)
• Your blood likes me 300 times more than Oxygen
• I will kill you and your whole family
• I am a product of incomplete combustion
• My explosive range is 12.5 to 74
• My SG is 0.967
• I am Carbon Monoxide

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What am I?

• I am reddish brown in color
• I smell of fumes
• I will kill you and your fellow miners
• I am not explosive
• I am found waist level and lower in mines
• I am a product of blasting and diesel engines
• My SG is 1.59
• I am Nitrogen Dioxide

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What am I?

• I have no color
• I will kill miners when they breath me
• I taste acidic
• I like to dissolve myself in water and come out
  when stirred up
• I smell like a match
• I tend to stay very low in the mine air
• My SG is 2.264
• I am Sulfur Dioxide

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What am I?

• I am odorless and colorless
• I am told I taste acidic in high concentrations
• I have killed many miners
• I like to stay low in mine air
• I am a product of complete combustion
• I am inherent in some rock strata
• I am given off by old timber
• I am a product of oxidation
• Breathing me a little will increase your
  breathing rate
• Breathing more of me will make you pant
• My SG is 1.529
• I am Carbon Dioxide

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Answers

• Hydrogen
• Nitrogen
• Methane
• Oxygen
• Propane
• Acetylene
• Hydrogen Sulfide
• Carbon Monoxide
• Nitrogen Dioxide
• Sulfur Dioxide
• Carbon Dioxide