sewer gas

NOUN
  1. foul-smelling gas that forms in sewers
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How To Use sewer gas In A Sentence

  • A downdraft over the stack is causing the sewer gas to be more noticeable.
  • This P trap has a 1-½ inch water seal to keep sewer gases from entering the building from the drainage system.
  • We have a nasty sewer gas odour that oozes periodically from the kitchen drain at the National Historic Site where I work. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Normally, a plug is always in place here, because this is an areawhere sewer gases dwell. Reuben's Home Inspection Blog
  • Or, if the sewer pipes in the walls of the house, or in the ground under the cellar, are not properly trapped and guarded, _sewer gas_ may escape into the house from them, and this also is most unwholesome, and even dangerous. A Handbook of Health
  • I want to ask why the Mexicans don't put drain traps in for sewer gas. Traps for sewer gas
  • One of those manholes like a bloody gaspipe and there was the poor devil stuck down in it , half choked with sewer gas.
  • They allow the entry of sullage into the house sewers whilst preventing the escape of foul sewer gases. 1. Intake structures
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