Sentences with phrase «ethane per»

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Recent estimates suggest the lakes are made of 80 per cent ethane, with slugs of propane, methane and acetylene, which could be a source of food for Titanian life, some researchers suggest.

Last year, Lorenz calculated that wind speeds of less than 1 metre per second — calm by terrestrial standards — should be sufficient to produce detectable waves in an ethane lake.

The model assumes Titan is pockmarked with seas made of 70 per cent ethane, 25 per cent methane, and 5 per cent nitrogen, and partially coated with an oily sludge.

[1] The combined seeps in the field release about 40 tons of methane per day and about 19 tons of reactive organic gas (ethane, propane, butane and higher hydrocarbons); about twice the hydrocarbon air pollution released by all the cars and trucks in Santa Barbara County in 1990.