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Methane

The History of Methane

- Alessandro Volta was the man who discovered methane. 
- While on his summer holidays, in 1776, on Lake Maggiore, his boat went alongside the reeds near Angera. Volta began to poke the muddy bottom of the water with a stick and saw lots of gassy bubbles floating up to burst on the surface. He collected some of this gas and discovered it was inflammable.
- He called it inflammable air from marshlands. It was what we nowadays call methane.
- He also discovered that methane when mixed with air could be exploded using an electric spark which is the basis of the internal combustion engine. (Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio, 2014). (Alessandro Volta, 2015).  


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