3.  Methane  Methane is a part of the hydrocarbon family.  Cyclic compound: The carbon atoms form one or more closed rings. The carbon atoms form one or more closed rings.  Subdivided according to chemical behavior into saturated and unsaturated compounds

4.  Common Name: Methane  Chemical Formula: CH 4  80% Hydrogen 20% Carbon  1:4 ratio  4 Hydrogen to 1 Carbon  Highly Abundant

5.  Tetrahedral shape.  Carbon atom sits at the center Four hydrogen atoms at the points of the tetrahedron.

6.  Molecular Weight: 16.04  Boiling Point: -161.4 °C  Critical Temperature: -82.4 °C  Critical Pressure: 45.8 Atm.  Gas Density: 0.554 (Air = 1)  Melting Point: -182.5° C (-296.5 °F)  Boiling Point: -161.5° C (-258.7 °F).  Colorless, Odorless, lightest, and Flammable gas  Blue Flame

7.  [CH 4 + 2O 2 -> CO 2 + 2H 2 O]  Insoluble in water  Autoignition Temperature 1,004 °F   Flammability limits, volume 5.3 - 15%  Hydrates store immense amounts of methane  Stored and extracted from ice

8.  Discoverer: Unknown  Date Discovered: Unknown  Registrar: Unknown  Swamp gas "will-o-the -wisp" and "jack-o'-the- lantern" are some of the nicknames.  Like milk, it’s just always been there.  Yes, its methane you smell when you fart

9.  Procured from decomposition of waste  Mined out of ice  10 million tons of frozen methane in the Earth  More than double the amount of coal, oil and natural gas reserves combined

10.  Can be used as an alternate fuel supply  Used in some Bunsen burners  Clean water producer  Ammonia supply

11.  Used to produce Ammonia  Ammonia used as a cleaner  Made from distilled camel dung  Ammonia melts at -77.7° C (-107.9 °F), boils at - 33.35° C (-28.03 °F), and has a density of 0.68 at its boiling point and 1 atmosphere (1,013 millibars) of pressure

12.  Clean Burning  Limitless  Renewable  Cheap mining  Renewable

13.  Insulates the atmosphere  One of the leading cause of global warming  Average surface temperature of Earth: 15 °C (59 °F)  Current Temp: +1.4 to 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.4 °F) Yearly Rise

14. 1)Methane.Com Page of the United States Environmental Protection Agency dedicated to http://www.methane.com/ http://www.methane.com/ 2)Properties of Fuels A comparative table with all the physical and characteristics of fuels. The page comes the National Biofuels Program of the United States Department of Energy. http://www.physics.orst.edu/ph313/c/doc/fuels/ge neral.properties.of.fuels.pdf