clathrate

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He concluded that warming of the ocean floor during the coming century is unlikely to induce a methane-clathrate release in the deep ocean of "atmospheric significance".

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  1. adjective Biology Having a latticelike structure or appearance: clathrate foliage.
  2. adjective Chemistry Of or relating to inclusion complexes in which molecules of one substance are completely enclosed within the crystal structure of another.
  3. noun Chemistry A clathrate compound, such as urea.

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  1. Latin clāthrātus, past participle of clāthrāre, to furnish with a lattice, from clāthrī, clātra, lattice, from Greek klēithra, pl. of klēithron, door bar, from kleiein, to close.

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  1. from Latin clathratus, past participle of clathrare, furnish with a lattice, from clathri, also clatra, from Greek κλῆθρα, a lattice, plural of κλῆθρον, Attic form of κλεῖθρον, a bar (see clithral), from κλείειν, shut: see close, v.
 

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