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Definition of Marsh gas

1. Noun. Methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water.

Definition of Marsh gas

1. Noun. (chemistry) methane ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Marsh gas

1. A light, colourless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series, a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness and indifference) called also the paraffin (little affinity) series. The lightest members are gases, as methane, ethane; intermediate members are liquids, as hexane, heptane, etc. (found in benzine, kerosene, etc); while the highest members are white, waxy, or fatty solids, as paraffin proper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Marsh gas

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1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"The action of chlorine upon marsh-gas has been the subject of an important investigation by Regnault, who has shown that the gradual substitution of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"marsh gas, 92.6 per cent; nitrogen, 3.61 per cent; hydrogen, 2.18 per cent; carbon monoxide, 0.50 per cent; oxygen, 0.34 per cent; ..."

3. First principles of chemistry for the use of colleges and schools by Benjamin Silliman (1861)
"This gas occurs abundantly in nature, being formed nearly pure by the decomposition of vegetable matter under water, (marsh gas.) The bubbles which rise ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Now we do not know how the atoms of hydrogen are actually arranged relatively to each other and to the atom of carbon in the molecule of marsh gas, but, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"The marsh-gases—homologues of marsh-gas—are characterised by their great neutrality, and present a uniformity of character which is most remarkable. ..."

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