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natural gas

noun

a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.

natural gas

a gaseous mixture consisting mainly of methane trapped below ground; used extensively as a fuel

natural gas

/ năch′ər-əl /

A mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the Earth's surface, often with or near petroleum deposits. Natural gas contains mostly of methane but also has varying amounts of ethane, propane, butane, and nitrogen. It is used as a fuel and in making organic compounds.

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First recorded in 1815–25

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Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.

On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

But if Clinton waded into the natural gas debate, she entirely avoided the Keystone one.

She is groundbreaking on the problem of methane leaks in natural-gas fracking, an exception that swallows the rule.

It would transport bitumen and liquefied natural gas drawn from the tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, mainly in Texas.

In the value of its petroleum, natural gas, clay products, and pig iron it has no close second.

For natural gas the compression pressure may easily be raised to from 85 to 100 pounds per square inch.

Findlay is the centre of the Ohio natural gas and oil region, and lime and building stone 355 abound in the vicinity.

In 1890 I became interested in the natural gas field at Greentown, Ind.

In 1896, natural gas was first used in the United States as a fuel for roasting coffee.

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