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Clathrates meaning
plural of clathrate
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Ocean hydrates consist of methane—essentially natural gas—trapped in icelike cages called clathrates on the ocean floor.
Carbon-cycle models confirm that it would have had enough effect to produce the observed reduction. citation citation Methane clathrates, also known as methane hydrates, consist of methane molecules trapped in cages of water molecules.
Furthermore, the Permian–Triassic extinction event has been suggested to have been caused by warming. citation citation citation Clathrate gun hypothesis main Clathrates are composites in which a lattice of one substance forms a cage around another.
Hydrates in natural gas processing Routine operations Methane clathrates (hydrates) are also commonly formed during natural gas production operations, when liquid water is condensed in the presence of methane at high pressure.
The clathrates in these deep deposits are thought to have formed in situ from the microbially produced methane, since the δ 13 C values of clathrate and surrounding dissolved methane are similar.