How do you get methanol from methane?

methane is not alcohol but methanol is alcohol the ol bit of methanol is alcohol

Yes, methanol is CH3OH and methane is CH4. Methanol is polar (because of the O-H bond) and methane is non-polar (because it is a hydrocarbon.) Water (which is polar) will dissolve other polar things, but not non-polar things.

Methanol is considered a polar solvent. The structure of methanol is a hydroxyl group (-OH) attached to a methane (-CH3). The hydroxyl has a greater negative charge than the methane, resulting in an effective polarity of the solvent.

because methane is a hydrocarbon!

The combustion of methanol to form products of H2O and CO2 do not have as much of an energy change compared to methane and a result methanol releases less energy compared to methane. The more negative an enthalpy change is, the more heat it is going to release.

Although methanol can be produced using a number of raw materials (feedstocks), natural gas is preferred. The methane in natural gas reacts with steam in a reaction called steam-methane reforming; the resultant synthesis gas then reacts with a catalyst to produce methanol and water vapor.

Archaea are producers of methane. They convert fermentation products such as CO2, H2, acetate, methanol to methane and CO2.

"Methane hydroxide" is not standard nomenclature. "Methanol" is the closest genuine compound I can imagine; the formula for that can be written as H3COH.

methanol is more polar and some what soluable in water because if have strong atraction forces

they are liquids

Yes, but it emits poisonous emission such as methane, methyl oxide.

Methanol. CH4 is Methane. OH is an alcohol (so you ad the "ol" ending). So you get: Methane + ol --> Methanol. It is a poisonous alcohol commonly synthesized from methane gas (natural gas), typically of petroleum origin, but also possible from natural "biogas". It is used in "racing fuel", biodiesel production, as well as a solvent.

yes, it has to because it has an OH group which participates in hydrogen bonding. this is why it stays in liquid phase at lower temperatures than methane.

CH3OH is an alcohol, not a hydrocarbon. It is known as methanol. It can be considered a derivative of the hydrocarbon methane.

... will also result in formation of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde (methanal), methanol, carbon black.

anything from 98 to 118 after that you get into to Methanol and the most powerful and Nitro Methane very powerful.

Methane, CH4 Methanol, CH3OH Methanal, CH2O Methyl chloride, CH3Cl

Methane is part of a group of organic hydrocarbons called alkanes which have only one carbon atom per molecule CH4, whereas methanol belongs to the alcohol group with an OH, CH3OH. So although they are related in name with meth- only because they contain one Carbon atom in their structure they are two different molecules and have different properties.

Yes methanol has a far higher boiling point than methane. Methane is a gas at room temperature while methanol is a liquid. Alkanes such as butane have very low boiling points, while alcohols that have small R groups, have relatively high boiling points. The main reason for this phenomenon is than alcohols have Oxygen and Hydrogen in positions that make [Hydrogen Bonding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bond] possible.

I am not aware of a process that can convert these compounds into methane. However I have read of an article where developement of a solar cell that generates electricity through some mechanism of reacting carbon dioxide and water to generate methanol. It may not be methane but methanol in of itself is also valuable as a fuel and to generate electricity through a byproduct is just astounding.

thousands of molecules. carbon dioxide, methane, ethane, etc. ethanol, methanol, stearic acid, octane, decane, edta,

Generally speaking 'like dissolves like' so when you thinking if a molecule can dissolve in a particular solvent, you need to decide what type of bonding that solvent can exhibit and what bonding the molecule in question exhibits. So for example water can exhibit hydrogen bonding. This means for something to be able soluble in water, it too needs to be able to exhibit hydrogen bonding. Methane only contains hydrogen and carbon and thus, will…

drotaverine is soluble in methanol, tetra hydro furan, dichloro methane and ammonium acetate buffer (0.01 M, pH=5)

Any organic compounds besides methane and methanol contain more than one carbon.

For the same reason that water isn't a gas. Oxygen is highly electronegative and the hydrogen bonding present in water and methanol raises the intermolecular attractive forces and results in a higher boiling point.

water ammonia carbon dioxide sulfur dioxide methane ethane methanol ethanol benzene toluene hexane pentane acetone acetaldehyde formaldehyde diethyl ether

No way! Theirs nicotine, duh. Methanol, paint, arsenic, lighter fluid, ammonia ( toilet cleaner ) cadmium, methane, and a bunch of other bad things. A.k.a. their bad for you

Three fuels are used in drag racing: gasoline, methanol and nitromethane. it depends on what car its going into. a top fuel burns 85%nitro+15%mixture of gas alchohal(methane)

Methanol. That is, methanol is a compound, not a mixture of compounds.

The formula for methanol is CH3OH. Methanol is many times abbreviated as MeOH. Methanol is commonly known as wood alcohol and does not have a symbol.

...antifreeze is methanol, so yes. most antirfreeze is methanol with water or soem other thing,s but its mostyle methanol.

There are close to 600 ingredients in a cigarette and when lit, those 600 ingredients make 7,000 chemicals. Some of the ingredients in a cigarette include arsenic, methanol, ammonia, stearic acid, methane gas, and acetic acid, or vinegar.

Gas detection systems monitor for the following types of gases: (Combustible) Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane, (flammable) methanol, gasoline, acetone, toxic gases and oxygen depletion.

methanol can't be dried completely, it always contains some water.

Phenyl methanol is actually Benzyl alcohol, C6H5-CH2-OH

methanol is a colourless liquid

Methanol is not dissociated.

Methanol is made by a method different from that used in the preparation of ethanol. The naphtha fraction from the distillation of crude petroleum, is used as a raw material for the manufacture of methanol. When naphtha is reacted with a high steam ratio, under pressure and at a high temperature, synthesis gas of low methane content is obtained. Most of the carbon from the naphtha is converted to carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide which…

==Weight of Methanol== One US gallon of methanol weighs about 6.6 pounds.

the density of methanol is... (drum roll) 0.79 g/cm3 The density of methanol is .7918g/cm3

Methanol is a type of alcohol that is known for being soluble in water. Methanol has a chemical formula of CH4O.

The density of methanol is .7918g/cm3

methanol is polar molecule.

No, at room temperature methanol is a liquid.

Methanol is polar.

biphenyl is not soluble in methanol

The methanol is a base not a acid

Methanol does not react with water.

Yes, methanol is very flammable.

Hydrochloric acid (HCl), methanol (CH3OH), ethanol (CH3CH2OH), sulfric acid (H2SO4), benzene (C6H6), water (H2O), toluene (CH3C6H6), methane (CH4), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), hydrofluoric acid (HF).