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November 9, 1996
The Mother Lode of Natural Gas
Methane hydrates stir tales of hope and hazard
By RICH MONASTERSKY
For kicks, oceanographer William P. Dillon likes to surprise visitors to his lab by taking ordinary-looking ice balls and setting them on fire.
"They're easy to light. You just put a match to them and they will go," says Dillon, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, Mass.
If the truth be told, this is not typical ice. The prop in Dillon' ...
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