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methane

[meth-eyn, mee-theyn] / ˈmɛθ eɪn, ˈmi θeɪn /
NOUN
marsh gas
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Chris Lofts, the site manager, said the waste was first filtered before having water added and being fed into a digester to create methane.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The Southern Utes’ reservation occupies about 1,100 square miles in the San Juan Basin, atop one of the most productive coal-bed methane fields in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Yak boosters say the animals leave a lighter hoof-print on the land because they eat one-third to one-half of what cows eat and produce less methane gas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

Within filaments of Methanothrix soehngenii, the most important methane producer on Earth, the researchers noticed that individual cells were dead.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Perhaps it is due to complex brightly colored organic molecules produced when ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down the methane, ammonia, and water in the Jovian atmosphere and the molecular fragments recombine.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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