Milestone: A methane-metal marriage

Monday, December 20, 2010 - 14:32 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona scientists have inserted metal atoms into methane gas molecules and obtained a detailed structure of the resulting molecule. The discovery could be a key step in making hydrocarbons available to chemical production and broadening our understanding of how nature uses metals in the molecules of living organisms.

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