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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus, devised by Monnier, to determine and indicate automatically the quantity of marsh-gas (methane) in coal-mines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument, resembling a eudiometer, to detect the presence and amount of methane, as in coal mines.

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