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Marsh gas   /mɑrʃ gæs/   Listen
Marsh gas

noun
1.
Methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water.





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"Marsh gas" Quotes from Famous Books



... more than I had expected. Well, Foster, a nuclear reactor produces heat. Great heat. We use that heat to turn a chemical called methane into its component parts. Methane is known as marsh gas, Foster. I wouldn't expect a Planeteer to know that. It is composed of carbon and hydrogen. When we pump it into the heat coils of the reactor, it breaks down and creates a gas that burns and drives us through space. But that ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin


Words linked to "Marsh gas" :   methane


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