ADJECTIVE
- designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another
- having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows
How To Use clathrate In A Sentence
- Gas hydrate is a kind of ice clathrate hydrate.
- However, it is unclear how much natural gas is tied up in clathrates.
- Methane hydrate is a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure, called a clathrate hydrate. Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists
- Liquid clathrates are two-phase systems consisting of an upper layer (typically pure solvent) with a clathrate species residing in a lower layer in a non-stoichiometric, but fixed, proportion of solvent.
- That's called a clathrate --- Latin for a "cage, trellis, or grating" -- and all kinds of things can be held in there. Mother Of Storms
- Low-density clathrate structures have been observed and modeled at below-ambient pressures and temperatures.
- If that methane were suddenly liberated from its enclosing clathrate prison the impact on the carbon isotope record would be immediate and severe.
- Indeed when you start reading all those palynological studies with the idea precipitation + d13C drop due to the low clathrate signature things start to fit exactly. IPCC 1995 [SAR] – An Extended Excerpt « Climate Audit
- Another method involves exchanging the methane molecules in the "clathrate" structure with carbon dioxide. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Technically they are clathrates (crystalline solids), similar to ice except that they are not of uniform molecular composition: part of their structure is provided by a ‘guest’ molecule.
