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The Recent Gas Explosion

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THE explosion of the gas main in the neighbourhood of the Tottenham Court Road appears to be an example on a large scale of the phenomenon which occurs on the bursting of a eudiometer.

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MCLEOD, H. The Recent Gas Explosion. Nature 22, 290 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022290b0

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