Constituent
Name
CH4:N2 crystalline solid solution - beta phase
Family
molecular solid
Class
non polar molecular solid
Compound type
solid molecular mixture
Constituent abundance in material
Relevance
main - major
Arrangement
single phase
Mass fraction
1.0 $\pm$ 1e-05
Chemical composition
Isotope mixture type
terrestrial abundance
  Formula Name Family Number min-max Mole fraction Mass fraction State Relevance Comments
$CH_4$ Methane molecule 0.001 $\pm$ 0.0001 0.000572912514958265 $\pm$ 5.74086979741605e-05 solid solution main 0.1, 0.25, 0.8 and 2% CH4 - 10% relative error mostly due to poorly known CH4 concentration gradient created by liquid-solid partition during beta phase crystallization
$N_2$ Nitrogen molecule 0.999 $\pm$ 0.0001 0.99941922910223 $\pm$ 0.000304921882441467 solid solution main 99.9, 99.75, 99.2 and 98% CH4
$CO_2$ Carbon dioxide molecule 5e-06 $\pm$ 5e-06 7.85838281157262e-06 $\pm$ 7.85999377199419e-06 mixed impurity impurity in N2 and CH4 gases and adsorbed - to be quantified
Chemical bonds
  Bond Number Relevance
$\geq C-H$ 4 main
$N\equiv N$ 1 main
$=C=O$ 2 impurity
Phase name
beta - hexagonal (dihexagonal dipyramidal), P6_3/mmc
Phase type
crystalline
Texture
monocrystalline