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Download Solution PDFWhich alkane is known as marsh gas?
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Download Solution PDFMethane is the lightest hydrocarbon having one carbon and four hydrogen atoms. Its molecular weight is 16. It is also a fuel gas commonly called marsh gas because it is produced from marshy lands. Some facts about it:
- Methane is produced when vegetation decomposes naturally within some geographical marshes, swamps.
- The main process behind the production of methane is anaerobic digestion.
- Biogas or Gobar gas also contains 60-70% of methane.
- Methane is one of the greenhouse gases. Other greenhouse gases are- carbon dioxide, water vapour, nitrous oxide and ozone.
- Methane is produced in the soil during microbial decomposition of organic matter and reduction of CO2 under strictly anaerobic conditions.
Hence, we conclude that Methane is known as Marsh gas.
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