Synonyms for methane
ˈmɛθ eɪn; Brit. ˈmi θeɪnmeth·ane

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. methanenoun

   Synonyms:
   carbon tetrahydride, methyl hydride

2. methanenoun

   The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH, being a constituent of natural gas.

   Cattle emit a large amount of methane.

   Synonyms:
   methyl hydride, carbon tetrahydride

3. methanenoun

   Any of very many derivatives of methane.

   Synonyms:
   carbon tetrahydride, methyl hydride

Princeton's WordNet

1. methanenoun

   a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel

Matched Categories

1. • Alkane
   • Gas

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "methane":

   ch4, cmm

How to pronounce methane?

How to say methane in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use methane in a sentence?

1. Charles Koven:

   The fastest way that we might mitigate some of the climate change that we're seeing already in the short term is by reducing methane, if we were to reduce methane emissions, The IPCC report would act to offset one of these sources of warming.

2. David Schnare:

   They’ve already started to pursue methane pollution, which the industry has been trying to control for a very long time, because that’s their product, the cost of running the drilling equipment, the pipelines and the plants themselves are being tightened.

3. Lijin Zhong:

   You can treat it as normal waste (or) can use technology to produce methane. Once you capture methane, you reduce emissions released into the air, at the same time you still have the extra bio gas which you can use for vehicles, heating systems or power generation.

4. Sam Kass:

   In the United States we throw away around 40 % of what we produce ; and globally, 28 % of the land under cultivation grows food that ends up in landfills, not only are you wasting all of the energy and water -- and the emissions from nitrous oxide from fertilizers -- you then just dump that into a landfill, which produces methane in amounts that is just staggering.

5. Pope Francis:

   It is true that there are other factors - such as volcanic activity, variations in the earth's orbit and axis, the solar cycle - yet a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others - released mainly as a result of human activity.