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Chinese Vocabulary

瓦斯

methane gas (in mining)

wǎsī

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Beyond HSK 1-4. The most feared word in Chinese coal mining. From Japanese ガス, ultimately from English 'gas'.

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5·22 Shanxi Mining Disaster — One Mine, 247 People, and a Death Toll That Kept Being Rewrittennormal 5·22 Shanxi Mining Disaster — 247 Miners Underground, 82 Couldn't Come Homemedium Shanxi Coal Mine Explosion — 82 Miners Killed at Liushenyueasy

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