What are gas hydrates?
Edited by: Y. C. Beaudoin, W. Waite, R. Boswell, and Scott Dallimore
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Abstract
The English chemistry pioneer Sir Humphry Davy first combined gas and water to produce a solid substance in his lab in 1810. For more than a century after that landmark moment, a small number of scientists catalogued various solid “hydrates” formed by combining water with an assortment of gases and liquids. Sloan and Koh (2007) review this early research, which was aimed at discerning the chemical structures of gas hydrates (Fig. 1.1), as well as the pressures and temperatures at which they are stable. Because no practical applications were found for these synthetic gas hydrates, they remained an academic curiosity.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | What are gas hydrates? |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | United Nations Environmental Programme |
| Contributing office(s) | Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Description | 20 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Frozen heat: UNEP global outlook on methane gas hydrates |
| First page | 11 |
| Last page | 30 |
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