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Chemists Create 'Powdered Methane' Thursday, September 04, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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Methane and natural gas are usually shipped around in pressurized pipelines and canisters. But chemists have now developed a new way to transport the gases: as a powder. Andrew Cooper and his colleagues at the University of Liverpool, UK, have found that they can trap methane in a bizarre material dubbed 'dry water', a mixture of silica and water that looks and acts like a fine white powder. (source: nature.com)
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