78.908148°W / 36.000013; -78.908148 On April 10, 2019, a gas explosion occurred near downtown Durham, North Carolina at the 115 block of North Duke Street...
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disasters List of boiler explosions List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions List of pipeline accidents List of gas explosions Spiteri, Stephen C....
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gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. In household accidents, the principal explosive gases...
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Mitsukoshi gas explosion 2019 Durham gas explosion 2015 East Village gas explosion 2014 East Harlem gas explosion Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion List of...
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West Stanley Pit disasters (category Explosions in 1882)
two explosions in 1882 and 1909 at the West Stanley colliery (also known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit), a coal mine near Stanley in County Durham, England...
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A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location. Dust explosions can occur where any dispersed...
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a gas compressor station, southwest of Fort Lupton June 25, 2012 - One worker dead, two injured at BP Pinon natural gas compressor station explosion in...
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List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 2010s (redirect from Fairport Harbor explosion)
18, 2019). "Witnesses describe explosion at Watford City saltwater site". www.kfyrtv.com. Retrieved April 12, 2019. "Enbridge gas pipeline explosion causes...
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Steve Schewel (category Durham, North Carolina, city council members)
2019 Schewel joined local business leaders and the city's fire chief to address the state of industry in Durham after the 2019 Durham gas explosion,...
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Coal dust (redirect from Coal dust explosion)
significant dust explosion hazard, as large quantities are suspended in air for transfer from the mill to the power plant. Explosions have occurred[where...
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Mining accident (redirect from Mine explosion)
including leaks of poisonous gases such as hydrogen sulfide or explosive natural gases, especially firedamp or methane, dust explosions, collapsing of mine stopes...
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Davy lamp (category Articles with unsourced statements from September 2019)
use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp. German polymath...
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Safety lamp (section Damps or gases)
with sealed explosion-proof electric lights, but continue to be used to detect gases. Miners have traditionally referred to the various gases encountered...
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measure combustible gases that present an explosion hazard when concentrations are between the lower explosion limit (LEL) and upper explosion limit (UEL). Active...
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square feet of office, residential, and retail space. On April 10, 2019, a gas explosion rocked Kaffeinate, a coffee shop in Bright Leaf Historic District...
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Bright Leaf Historic District (category Historic districts in Durham, North Carolina)
Register of Historic Places in 1999. Watts and Yuille Warehouses 2019 Durham gas explosion "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic...
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Blantyre mining disaster (section Explosion)
firing had displaced the gas towards the area where men were smoking and that a naked flame there triggered off the explosion. The mine owner erected a...
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Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass (category Buildings and structures in Durham, North Carolina)
2022, retrieved January 24, 2022 "Durham explosion: Camera on bridge caught sound of blast". WTVD. April 10, 2019. Archived from the original on July...
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History. 130: 65–66. Retrieved 31 January 2018. The Fauld Explosion. Report on the Explosion which occurred at the Trimdon Grange Colliery on the 16th...
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Easington Colliery (category Villages in County Durham)
County Durham and Easington in particular.[citation needed] Poet, Songwriter and Durham miner Jock Purdon penned and sang the lament "Easington Explosion" regarding...
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Lingdale (category Use British English from November 2019)
other churches. On 24 August 1953, 15 men were critically injured in a gas explosion in the south-west dips district of Lingdale Ironstone Mine. During the...
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built as the town grows toward the west. In October 2006, a chemical explosion and fire in a waste-processing facility prompted the evacuation of over...
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Saturation diving (redirect from Gas reclaim system)
which the body tissues become saturated with metabolically inert gas from the breathing gas mixture. Once saturated, the time required for decompression to...
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can act as a fuel in combustion increasing the risk of explosion, especially in high-oxygen gas mixtures. Inhaling oil mist can damage the lungs and ultimately...
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1960s. Bob Davenport was born in Gateshead, County Durham. At 10 months of age, he survived a gas explosion which destroyed his family home and killed his...
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Seaham (redirect from Seaham, County Durham)
County Durham, England. Located on the Durham Coast, Seaham is situated 6 miles (10 kilometres) south of Sunderland and 13 miles (21 km) east of Durham. The...
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immediate effects include reducing the size of gas emboli and raising the partial pressures of the gases present. Initial uses were in decompression sickness...
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Ball lightning (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from March 2019)
and so appear as an explosion. In December 1899, Nikola Tesla theorized that the balls consisted of a highly rarefied hot gas. Fedosin presented a model...
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Wallsend (category Articles with dead external links from December 2019)
recorded at the colliery resulting in over 209 deaths. On 18 June 1835 a gas explosion in one of the tunnels killed 102 miners, the youngest of whom was aged...
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