clathrate

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Is this the clathrate gun I've heard so much about?

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Quick take

having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows

adjective

designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for clathrate.

adjective

having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows

adjective

designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another

Example sentences

Is this the clathrate gun I've heard so much about?

The timeline for oceanic clathrate release is measured in thousands of years.

Oceanic clathrate release is not projected under even the worst warming estimates.

If they'd thrown in a guesstimate on possible massive arctic permafrost/clathrate methane leaks, it'd make this estimate look conservative.

This is the part where we're playing with the possibility of destabilizing underwater methane clathrate reserves.

This is just a statement about whether we're going to accidentally shock the globe into a radically different climate by triggering a methane clathrate gun.

I think the suggestion was to fertilize the oceans with large quantities of iron to create massive microorganism blooms to sequester CO2, not to somehow "block the clathrate gun" as it were.

If there were a life-ending loaded clathrate gun out there, the Earth would have hit it and triggered it then, not when we're experiencing relatively cooler temperatures now or in the near future.