Sentences with phrase «methane hydrate crystals»

Another Slate reader, «CAP,» advocates using the methane hydrate crystals that mucked up the containment dome to plug the wellhead.

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At a lower pressure — approximately 4 GPa — methane and molecular hydrogen interact, forming co-crystals (where two molecules together create one crystal structure), and at 6 GPa, hydrates — CO-crystals made of methane and water — are formed.

But researchers such as Natalia Shakhova — a visiting scientist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and a participant in some of the Siberian Shelf scientific cruises — are concerned that the undersea permafrost layer has become unstable and is leaking methane long locked in ice crystals, known as methane hydrates.

James Hansen, adjunct professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and former Head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies claims the melting ice could lead to the point where ocean floor warming triggers massive release of methane hydrate, i.e., methane molecules trapped in ice crystals, which would become a «tipping point.»

Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate, hydromethane, methane ice or «fire ice» is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate, hydromethane, methane ice or «fire ice» is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar methane hydrate, hydromethane, methane ice or «fire ice» is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar methane ice or «fire ice» is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar methane is trapped within a crystal structure of water, forming a solid similar to ice.