Definitions for methane

methane meth·ane

Spelling: [meth-eyn; British mee-theyn]
IPA: /ˈmɛθ eɪn; British ˈmi θeɪn/

Methane is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in methane (aeehmnt).

Definitions for methane

noun

  1. a colorless, odorless, flammable gas, CH 4 , the main constituent of marsh gas and the firedamp of coal mines, obtained commercially from natural gas: the first member of the methane, or alkane, series of hydrocarbons.

Origin of methane

First recorded in 1865-70; meth- + -ane

Examples for methane

It could insinuate itself into places where neither the methane nor the ammonia could get.

Only two of them, methane and acetylene, will be discussed here.

methane (chemical formula CH4) is one of the simplest hydrocarbons, which literally means “containing hydrogen and carbon.”

It consists of a number of saturated hydrocarbons of the methane series.

Perhaps the mysterious Martian methane, and its strange fluctuations, are part of that story.

methane could be produced by microbes on Mars, too, if they exist in enough numbers.

Two of the planets were enveloped in methane, but the third had an earth-normal atmosphere.

That can happen, according to the report, when (flammable) methane leaks out of fracking wells and into drinking water.

methane is a familiar chemical, whether you know it by that name or not.

In some series, as the methane series, the higher members are solids.

Word Value for methane
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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