Crossword clues for marsh gas
marsh gas
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carbureted \Car"bu*ret`ed\, a.
(Chem.) Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.
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Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power. [Written also carburetted.]
Carbureted hydrogen gas, any one of several gaseous compounds of carbon and hydrogen, some of with make up illuminating gas.
Light carbureted hydrogen, methane ( CH4), also called marsh gas, and fire damp.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) methane
WordNet
n. methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water
Wikipedia
Marsh gas, swamp gas and bog gas are common names for biogas which forms in wetlands, whose principal component is methane with hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide as minor compositions, produced naturally within some geographical marshes, swamps, and bogs.
The surface of marshes, swamps and bogs is initially porous vegetation that rots to form a crust that prevents oxygen from reaching the organic material trapped below. That is the condition that allows anaerobic digestion and fermentation of any plant or animal material which incidentally also produces methane.
In some cases there is sufficient heat, fuel and oxygen to allow spontaneous combustion and underground fires to smolder for some considerable time as occurred at a natural reserve in Spain. Such fires can cause surface subsidence presenting an unpredictable physical hazard and as well as environmental changes or damage to the local environment and the ecosystem it supports.
Usage examples of "marsh gas".
The sharp green smell of bruised vegetation rose up around him, mingling with the yeasty scent of the mud, the occasional earth-fart of marsh gas, and the odors of gun oil and metal.
He imagined living the year round with that hot wind constantly scouring the island, the smell of the marsh gas and the guano.
Outside, another day of brazen heat and ugly wind and the smell of marsh gas would be beginning.
It has been supposed to assist in purifying the putrid air of marshes by absorbing a great quantity of marsh gas.
Reddish flickers erupted, like marsh gas lit by static charges, at the swampy border of a lake.
Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it, in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia.
Twice they had to circle broad pools from which bubbles of marsh gas rose and burst.
He had no sense of passing time and for an instant thought it the explosion of another pocket of marsh gas.
But some places, you said, were using marsh gas to do useful work.