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Methane   /mˈɛθˌeɪn/   Listen
Methane

noun
1.
A colorless odorless gas used as a fuel.



Related search:
methane series


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"Methane" Quotes from Famous Books



... a gas that "traps" infrared radiation in the lower atmosphere causing surface warming; water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and ozone are the primary greenhouse ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... Dr. Dale said. "There are positive signs of decreasing pressure in the artificial atmosphere around the settlements on Titan. The pressure is dropping and yet there is no indication that the force screen, holding back the real methane ammonia atmosphere of Titan, is ...
— Treachery in Outer Space • Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman
... little interest. In the place where, according to Bode's Law, another planet, corresponding to Mars, should have been, there was only a belt of asteroids. Beyond this was still another belt. And on the other side of the double asteroid belt was the fourth planet, a fifty-thousand-mile-in-diameter methane-ammonia giant which Morey named Zeus in ...
— Islands of Space • John W Campbell


Words linked to "Methane" :   alkane, methane series, paraffin series, alkane series, gas, marsh gas, paraffin, natural gas


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