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The molecular weight of Methane is 16.04 g/mol. The chemical formula for Methane is CH4.

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In the middle of the shape is the Hydrogen, the gray parts attached to the pink parts are carbon molecules.

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Methane is lighter than air, which means you could make balloons float if you pumped methane into them.
Methane is fairly combustible, with a heat output of 891 kJ/mol it can be used to make explosives. That heat output also makes it a good source of power for homes.
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Methane can be dangerous, as it is colorless and odorless. So lighting a match or switching on a gas stove could be dangerous if there is enough methane to create an explosion.

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Methane can be produced in a few different ways. One of those ways that I would have never thought of is, cow farts. Because the U.S.N.A (United States of North America, I think it sounds better like that.) produces so much beef, the amount of methane released from cattle is a concerning amount. Cattle produces 80 million metric tons of methane per year. That is made even worse when the fact that methane is 28 times better at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. That is equivalent to 2.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. The other ways are a bit more believable, methane is produced when mining coal and other resources.

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Methane has gone up an enormous amount, almost an exponential amount.

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While methane is much more volatile for global warming, it stays in the atmosphere for a much shorter shorter time

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The most useful chemical reaction of methane is combustion. CH₄ + 2O₂ → CO₂ + 2H₂O.
When in the correct conditions methane can have a reaction with halogen radicals
X• + CH₄ → HX + CH₃•

CH₃• + X₂ → CH₃X + X•

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Global warming potential is the measuring system of the amount of energy 1 ton of a gas will absorb over a certain amount of time. Carbon dioxide is the gas that methane and many other gasses are being measured against.
Methanes global warming potential is between 26-34
Nitrous oxied has a gwp of 265-298

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Anyone who cares about future generations should care about the gasses in our atmosphere. CO2 is without a doubt a large contributor to global warming, but if methane is 28 times as bad for global arming as CO2 then I feel like it should be focused on more.

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https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials#:~:text=CO2%2C%20by%20definition%2C%20has,will%20last%20thousands%20of%20years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#:~:text=a%20plastic%20crystal.-,Chemical%20reactions,reforming%20to%20syngas%2C%20and%20halogenation.

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/education/info_activities/pdfs/CTA_the_methane_cycle.pdf

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/280.4

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/education/info_activities/pdfs/CTA_the_methane_cycle.pdf

https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable/#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%20a%20single%20cow,the%20Department%20of%20Animal%20Science.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/#:~:text=Once%20it's%20added%20to%20the,timescale%20of%20many%20human%20lives.

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=CHEBI:16183