Sentences with phrase «pressure than methane»

Nitrogen has a much greater vapour pressure than methane, and the vapour pressure indicates the ease with which a solid can become gaseous at a given temperature.

Not exact matches

«Titan's atmosphere is made up mainly of nitrogen and methane, with 50 % higher pressure at its surface than on Earth,» said Andrew Coates (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory), who led the study.

Natural methane hydrates were first discovered by Russian scientists in the late 1960s in Siberian permafrost — where the ground is so cold that hydrates can form at shallower depths and at lower pressures than under the sea — and then, in the 1970s, at the bottom of the Black Sea.

With a pressure 100,000 times less than the Earth's atmosphere, it's consists of nitrogen with traces of methane and carbon monoxide, all of which have sublimated from Plutonian ice.

Fracking, including methane and water concerns — Environmental groups will keep the pressure on the Obama administration to more aggressively regulate methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide that is the primary component of natural gas.

Wow, that's an interesting scientific approach to a new phenomenon, assuming that it's unique (there are now two other examples, by the way) assuming that the emissions were of gaseous methane under pressure rather than solid methane hydrate continuing to dissociate, assuming no methane flows in from surrounding areas, and so on.

Changes to the temperature and pressure of permafrost soils (and ocean waters) could lead to methane, a gas with a much stronger greenhouse warming potential than carbon dioxide, being released.

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We know the administration is feeling pressure to pile on new methane regulation from those who're more interested in halting natural gas development altogether than in making the process better for the environment — which demonstrably is industry's history and continuing goal.

[9] However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves worldwide combines with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates are more stable in fresh water than in salt water.

[Response: Turns out that hydrate preservation is much more sensitive to changes in temperature than it is changes in pressure, so what we might look for is release of methane during deglaciation.