marsh gas

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I don’t read Swedish, so I’m unsure how to apportion credit for beautiful sentences, but they abound: Snide comments are “tiny puffs of marsh gas.”

From New York Times

This ‘marsh gas’ is methane, a greenhouse gas that is some 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

From Nature

The simplest of these is methane, or marsh gas, which is formed in nature by the bacterial decomposition of organic matter under water.

From The New Yorker

It was subject to continual leaks and floods, and suffused with fetid marsh gases that would periodically combust, ignited by the gas lamps that lit the tunnel.

From The New Yorker

The simplest of these is methane, or marsh gas, formed in nature by the bacterial decomposition of organic matter under water.

From Literature