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METHANEPHONE

Specialty Definition: METHANEPHONE

Domain	Definition
Mining	An instrument for detecting methane in mine air. It contains an electric battery that sustains a small electric glow light. As soon as a certain percentage of methane enters the workings, a tiny explosion occurs in the fuse head, where a fine wire filament is melted and starts a bell ringingcontinuously. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: METHANEPHONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-h-m-n-n-o-p-t"
	-3 letters: naphthene, phenomena.
	-4 letters: ethephon, menthene, nepenthe, pantheon.
	-5 letters: anemone, apothem, haptene, heathen, heptane, methane, metopae, montane, neonate, nonheme, nonmeat, penname, pennate, pentane, pentene, phaeton, phantom, phenate, phonate, phoneme, potheen.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: METHANEPHONE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 54 48 41 4E 45 50 48 4F 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000101 01010100 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000101 01010000 01001000 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 0054 0048 0041 004E 0045 0050 0048 004F 004E 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

473954423548395042494839

INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography

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