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Actually methane molecules have no oxygen atoms. Methane is an organic compound ( a gas at room temperature) which is composed of only carbon and hydrogen atoms.

Each methane molecule has 1 carbon atom bonded to 4 hydrogen atoms by covalent bonds.

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