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STINKDAMP

Specialty Definition: STINKDAMP

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Mining

A mining term for hydrogen sulfide. The gas has an unpleasant smell, resembling that of rotten eggs, hence the name. The presence of this gas may indicate a gob fire in its early stages. Produced by thedistintegration of iron pyrites. See also:damp. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: STINKDAMP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-k-m-n-p-s-t"

-2 letters: kidnaps, mantids, pandits, pitmans, sandpit.

-3 letters: admits, amidst, kamsin, kidnap, kismat, mantid, mantis, matins, paints, pandit, patins, pintas, pitman, ptisan, takins.

-4 letters: adits, admit, amids, amins, antis, damns, damps, dinks, dints, ditas, ikats, inapt, kadis, kains, kinas, kinds, knaps, knits, maids, mains, maist, matin, midst, minas, minds, minks, mints, nipas, padis, paiks, pains.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: STINKDAMP


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

53 54 49 4E 4B 44 41 4D 50

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)

...    -    ..    -.    -.-    -..    .-    --    .--.

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

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

01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01001011 01000100 01000001 01001101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#75 &#68 &#65 &#77 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0049 004E 004B 0044 0041 004D 0050

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

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

535443484538354750

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