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methane

/meth-eyn; British mee-theyn/US // ˈmɛθ eɪn; British ˈmi θeɪn //UK // (ˈmiːθeɪn) //

甲烷,甲醇,甲烷的,甲烷的作用

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, CH4, the main constituent of marsh gas and the firedamp of coal mines, obtained commercially from natural gas: the first member of the methane, or alkane, series of hydrocarbons.

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Examples

  • Natural gas mostly produces methane, which is the second leading contributor to global warming.

  • Those precursors include nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds — both produced by traffic — as well as methane, produced by the oil and gas industry.

  • Creating jet fuel is particularly challenging because most routes for synthesizing hydrocarbons from CO2 tend to produce smaller molecules with only a few carbon atoms, like methane and methanol.

  • The technology is more typically used in military and industrial settings, such as detecting methane gas leaks in pipelines.

  • Other projects target methane, a particularly powerful greenhouse gas.

  • That can happen, according to the report, when (flammable) methane leaks out of fracking wells and into drinking water.

  • Methane could be produced by microbes on Mars, too, if they exist in enough numbers.

  • Methane is a familiar chemical, whether you know it by that name or not.

  • Perhaps the mysterious Martian methane, and its strange fluctuations, are part of that story.

  • And if the Martian methane is a real thing, it has some interesting implications.

  • All of them were fueled with liquid HNO3, which makes a pretty good fuel in an atmosphere that is predominantly methane.

  • The seas of Eisberg were liquid methane containing dissolved ammonia.

  • When the pumps in the air lock began pulling out the methane-laden atmosphere, they began to bulge slightly, but not excessively.

  • Methane is yielded by aluminium and beryllium carbides, and, mixed with hydrogen, by manganese carbide.

  • Those gases which contain less methane contain all the more hydrogen, viz.