7 sentences with 'methane'
Example sentences and phrases with the word methane and other words derived from it.
• « Freons are derived from human activity, and methane originates both from bacterial decomposition of man-made waste and from naturally occurring decomposition in natural ecosystems. »
• « The concentration of carbon dioxide and methane, as shown by ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland, remained constant (at about 700 parts of gas per billion parts of ice) in the period between 10,000 and 300 years ago. But in the last century they increased dramatically. »
• « Among the minor components of the Jovian (Jupiter's) atmosphere are methane, ammonia, water and carbon monoxide. Except for the water, everything else is a big turn-off for us. »
• « The frozen methane on this dwarf planet gives scientists enough reason to believe that Pluto originated in outer solar space. »
• « In 1980, a Plutonian atmosphere of gaseous methane was detected, which gives the dwarf planet's atmosphere only one ten-thousandth of the surface pressure of Earth's atmosphere. »
• « As a result, the rocks melt and form magma, with high components of water vapour, methane, nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide. »