Definitions for methanes

methanes meth·ane

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

Methanes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 348 anagrams from letters in methanes (aeehmnst).

Definitions for methanes

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 methanes

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

Examples for methanes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for methanes
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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