Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
methane . - noun Methane, or marsh-gas.
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(- 256° Fahr.); and at this temperature nitrogen and oxygen can be liquefied in a bath of formene as readily as sulphurous acid in the common freezing mixture.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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Cailletet, Wroblewski, and Olzewski have continued their experiments in liquefaction, and acquired increased facility in the handling of liquid ethylene, formene, atmospheric air, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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M. Cailletet devised a cheaper process, by employing another hydrocarbon that rises from the mud of marshes, and is called _formene_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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