ADJECTIVE
- designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another
- having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows
How To Use clathrate In A Sentence
- Technically they are clathrates (crystalline solids), similar to ice except that they are not of uniform molecular composition: part of their structure is provided by a ‘guest’ molecule.
- The methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas and this leads to further temperature rises and methane clathrate destabilisation -- in effect initiating a runaway process as irreversible, once started, as the firing of a gun. DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
- Gas hydrate is a kind of ice - like clathrate hydrate.
- This creates cage structures called clathrates, which release gas on the tongue as the ice melts, producing a fizzy sensation in the mouth.
- Although not related to Prof Ryskin's "Methane Driven Oceanic Eruption", the clathrate gun hypothesis works on the basis that rises in sea temperatures can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in seabeds and permafrost. DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
- Methane hydrate is a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure, called a clathrate hydrate. Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists
- There is stronger evidence that runaway methane clathrate breakdown may have caused drastic alteration of the ocean environment and the atmosphere of earth on a number of occasions in the past. DK Matai: Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones
- All are present in the gas as the monatomic elements and argon, krypton, and xenon undergo condensation to either ices or clathrate hydrates at sufficiently low temperatures.
- The clathrate gun hyopthesis has received attention lately, although it's been benevolently referred to as a "methane burp" rather than an apocalyptic release of methane that hammered in the nails of past mass extinctions. Scott Thill: We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction
- Methane hydrates are not the only clathrates that can form in the deep ocean environment.
