Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being respirable; respirability.
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The usual method of testing the respirableness of air suspected to be contaminated with carbon dioxide is to lower a lighted candle into it; if the candle goes out the atmosphere is poisonous; if it continues to burn, however, the air is not necessarily harmless, as a candle will burn in an atmosphere that is dangerous to life.
1902, “Toxicology”, in Chalmers Watson, editor, Encyclopaedia Medica, volume 12, New York: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, page 327
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