How to Use methane in a Sentence

methane

noun
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  • So, in the far north of the world, the soils store a lot of carbon, and there's methane underground.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • The methane forms rivers, lakes, and small seas on Titan’s surface.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And methane emissions aren’t the only hazard that stem from the landfill.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and methane, the warmer our world gets.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That also means that the system does not produce as much methane.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The outer belt is around twice the size of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of icy objects, mostly frozen methane and ammonia, around the Sun.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023
  • Some might say methane emissions, which, by a factor of 28, are more potent than CO2.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The city’s vast methane gas field extended to the spot near downtown chosen for a big school complex.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The point of the law is to remove organic waste from our landfills to reduce methane emissions and slow the need for new places to dump our waste.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Left unplugged, many wells leak climate-warming methane, brine and toxins that were used in the drilling process.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023
  • And the reservoirs behind them burp out large amounts of methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Wells and pipelines in the Permian Basin, a huge oilfield near the rocket site, are thought to give off some 2.7 million tons of methane a year.
    — Zachary Mider, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term, compared with carbon dioxide.
    — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Terran 1 burns a mix of methane and liquid oxygen to produce thrust.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Cattle burps are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
    — Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Neither is a very lightweight choice, but steel is durable and methane could be collected on Mars to power the rocket, writes NPR.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The launch was originally scheduled to take place Wednesday, but a glitch with the rocket’s methane fuel forced SpaceX to stand down.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Making gray hydrogen from methane costs about $2 per kilogram, or about 90 cents a pound.
    — Kristel Tjandra, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Most of those earth-warming gasses come from cows, which produce methane, scientists say.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Aside from the economic damage, the blasts released huge amounts of planet-warming methane.
    — Frank Jordans, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Because of farming, nitrates were seeping into the earth and cattle pumped methane into the skies.
    — Raf Casert, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Because of farming, nitrates were seeping into the earth, and cattle pumped methane into the skies.
    — Raf Casert, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But cooking appliances aren’t the only household items that run on methane gas.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Many see bringing down methane emissions as a crucial, quick way to curb further warming.
    — Jennifer McDermott and Joeal Calupitan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Gas, which is primarily composed of methane, is cleaner than coal when it is burned.
    — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • By studying the rumen, scientists can better understand what foods cause cows to produce the most and least amounts of methane.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • The resort’s next project is to build methane digesters to turn human waste into even more usable energy.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers used aircraft to conduct a survey of methane emissions from hundreds of large landfills across the country.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Scientists were in the area looking for a cold seep — fissures in the seafloor where gases like methane and hydrogen sulfide bubble out.
    — Mark Price, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023

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