asphyxiating gas

Five other people have died in hospitals, mostly from breathing the superheated, asphyxiating gases.

In the shops there was no ventilation, because of what had to work in clubs fumes, dust and asphyxiating gases.

Bryland had not only put all interior switches out of commission; from below, he had released a supply of asphyxiating gas.

Lieutenant Haines remained at his station to assist in controlling the damage until overcome by asphyxiating gas generated by the explosion.

This attack was preceded by a heavy bombardment, the enemy at the same time making use of a large number of appliances for the production of asphyxiating gases.

A general concern over the use of poison gas manifested itself in 1899 at the Hague Conference with a proposal prohibiting shells filled with asphyxiating gas.

By using asphyxiating gas fumes the Germans north of Ypres have forced back French troops to the Yser Canal near Boesinghe.

For example, during the First World War, when he was called to Royal Engineers Experimental Station (near Salisbury) to carry out experiments on asphyxiating gas, he exposed himself to an atmosphere of poisonous hydrogen cyanide.

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Navy spokesmen in Washington said the blast was, in the words of a former battleship gunner, probably a "flash and gas" explosion, meaning that the three 110-pound bags of powder ignited and instantaneously filled the turret with fire and asphyxiating gas.

Many other miners, as well as the vast majority of mine animals, were killed by an asphyxiating gas called afterdamp that spread through the mine as they fled to the Millcreek Portal, several miles away, the only other exit from the mine.

He was coughing badly - he said he was still suffering from the canister of asphyxiating gas that a policeman shoved down the back of his track suit that day - and said he had bruises on his arms and back from police batons.

In the 1899 Hague Convention, the major European countries - including Britain, France, Germany and Russia - and the United States swore not to use "poison or poisoned weapons," and signed an additional declaration renouncing projectiles meant only to carry asphyxiating gas.

Lieutenant Commander Hayter was serving as damage control officer when New Orleans received a torpedo hit, and as Central Station, his battle post, filled with asphyxiating gas he ordered all men without masks to leave the compartment giving his own to a partially stricken seaman.