Synonyms for Methane
ˈmɛθ eɪn; Brit. ˈmi θeɪnmeth·ane

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1. methanenoun

   Synonyms:
   carbon tetrahydride, methyl hydride

2. methanenoun

   The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH, being a constituent of natural gas.

   Cattle emit a large amount of methane.

   Synonyms:
   methyl hydride, carbon tetrahydride

3. methanenoun

   Any of very many derivatives of methane.

   Synonyms:
   carbon tetrahydride, methyl hydride

Princeton's WordNet

1. methanenoun

   a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel

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1. • Alkane
   • Gas

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1. List of paraphrases for "methane":

   ch4, cmm

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1. David Schnare:

   They’ve already started to pursue methane pollution, which the industry has been trying to control for a very long time, because that’s their product, the cost of running the drilling equipment, the pipelines and the plants themselves are being tightened.

2. Lijin Zhong:

   You can treat it as normal waste (or) can use technology to produce methane. Once you capture methane, you reduce emissions released into the air, at the same time you still have the extra bio gas which you can use for vehicles, heating systems or power generation.

3. GasLog:

   GasLog Ltd has entered into an agreement with Methane Services Ltd to acquire two modern tri-fuel diesel electric LNG carriers for a cost of $460 million.

4. Suzanne Dodd:

   We need to develop an orbiter for each of those planets, at Uranus, the five major moons are very different. They have unique geological history, so we need to understand how they were formed or captured. Uranus has a rotational pole that is tipped on its side more than the Earth, so we need an understanding of why that happened. At Neptune, there are a great amount of features in atmosphere similar to Jupiter and Saturn. And Neptune's moon Triton is of interest because of the methane geysers on it.

5. Scott Pruitt:

   Look, let me say to you, CO2( carbon dioxide) contributes to greenhouse gas, it has a greenhouse gas effect and global warming, as methane does and other types of gases, the issue is how much we contribute to it from the human activity perspective and what can be done about it from a process perspective, Chris.