methane

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But the methane might be also produced each summer, released when the ground warms and expands to open pores containing methane deposits.

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  1. noun An odorless, colorless, flammable gas, CH4, the major constituent of natural gas, that is used as a fuel and is an important source of hydrogen and a wide variety of organic compounds.

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  • Not a certainty—the methane could be bubbling up out of subterranean vents, perhaps—but nevertheless there's a decent probability that living things are growing and eating and digesting and farting, maybe, and dying and decaying, all of which are methane-producing processes, on the cheerful turf of Planet A Innelda and Marcus turn in a positive report. —  Starborne
  • Gundersen Lutheran has been working with City Brewery in La Crosse to use the beer maker's left over methane which is created during the brewing process. —  WEAU - HomePage - Headlines
  • He cites marketable sod, fertilizers, bio-methane, and renewable electricity generation as answers to his question. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • If we trigger this runaway release of methane, there's no turning back. —  Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  • (09 / 28 / 2006) Concentrations of methane, a greenhouse gas more than twenty times more potent than carbon dioxide, are rising in Earth's atmosphere finds a new study published in Nature. —  Mongabay.com News
 

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