clathrate
Speech parts
1. clathrate - Noun
2. clathrate - Adjective
3. clathrate - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.
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An important example is methane hydrate (also known as gas hydrate, methane clathrate, etc.).
Solid neon clathrate hydrate was produced from water ice and neon gas at pressures 0.35–0.48 GPa and temperatures ca. –30 °C. citation Ne atoms are not bonded to water and can freely move through this material.
Even under these conditions, the clathrate dissociation is a slow process.
Hydrogen clathrate is likely to form in condensation nebulae for gas giants.
In other words, clathrate hydrates are clathrate compounds in which the host molecule is water and the guest molecule is typically a gas or liquid.
Methane extracted from methane clathrate is therefore a candidate for future fuels.