Sentences with phrase «water cage structure»
It is known that larger hydrocarbon molecules like ethane and propane can also form hydrates, although longer molecules (butanes, pentanes) can not fit into the water cage structure and tend to destabilise the formation of hydrates.
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When hydrates were first discovered at the beginning of the 19th century, their weird structure made them little more than curiosities in a chemist's lab: cage - like structures of frozen water...
If there is — say some combination of other elements adding to produce a better structure for the «cage» of water molecules that trap methane, say occurring naturally in pore spaces in sediment or leaf litter washed into the ocean — it ought to be discoverabe.
The average methane clathrate hydrate composition is 1 mole of methane for every 5.75 moles of water, though this is dependent on how many methane molecules «fit» into the various cage structures of the water lattice.
The nominal methane clathrate hydrate composition is (CH4) 4 (H2O) 23, or 1 mole of methane for every 5.75 moles of water, corresponding to 13.4 % methane by mass, although the actual composition is dependent on how many methane molecules fit into the various cage structures of the water lattice.