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It is 21 times more effective than carbon dioxide in blocking escaping radiant heat.

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What gas is 20 times better at collecting heat than carbon dioxide?

Methane blocks heat radiation twenty times more effectively per molecule than does carbon dioxide. Fortunately, atmospheric methane concentrations are very much lower than carbon dioxide.


Which greenhouse gas is 25 times better at trapping heat than carbon dioxide?

methane


What happends when methane burns?

The production of water and carbon dioxide and the release of heat energy.


What is the chemical formula for combustion of methane?

CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O + Energy (Heat) Methane + Oxygen → Carbon Dioxide + Water and Energy (Heat)


How much more heat does methane capture than carbon dioxide?

There are various comparisons but methane is generally seen as capturing about 21 times more heat per unit of mass than carbon dioxide over a 100 year period. In the short term the methane may be 70 to 1000 times more effective, but it dissipates more rapidly. This is due to the relative half lives of the two gases in the environment.


How do landfills contribute to global warming?

Landfills typically release methane, which is a greenhouse gas produced from rotting organic matter, like food scraps and garden waste. Methane is a greenhouse gas twenty-one times more powerful than carbon dioxide.


Which gas in the atmosphere Global warming focuses on an increase in the level of heat?

Carbon dioxide (CO2) and also Methane.


What happens when fuels are burnt?

Carbon dioxide is produced most times as it seperates the carbon from the rest of the compound, and then combines with oxygen, therefore resulting in carbon dioxide. Other polluting gases are methane, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, ammonia and carbon monoxide.


How do water vapour carbon dioxide and methane cause global warming?

Water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane are all greenhouse gases. This means they absorb heat rising from the surface of the earth (infrared radiation). Human activity (burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) and bad farming practices, mostly), is adding more carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) to the atmosphere, so more heat is captured. This is global warming.


What is an exmaple of a chemical reaction for exothermic?

Methane and oxygen react to form water and carbon dioxide and release considerable heat.


What is the atmospheric gas that traps heat inside the atmosphere?

Greenhouse gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane.


What is made when methane and air are reacted?

methane rapidly combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide and water, releasing lots of heat. it's called combustion.-------------------------------------------------------------------------CH4 + 2O2 = CO2 + 2H2O + heat