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methane

DEFINITIONS OF: methane

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n a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel

Types:
marsh gas
methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water
Type of:
gas
a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin, paraffin series
a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
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