Usually means: Colorless, odorless, flammable natural gas.
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noun:  (organic chemistry, uncountable) The simplest aliphatic hydrocarbon, CH₄, being a constituent of natural gas, and one of the most abundant greenhouse gases.
noun:  (organic chemistry, countable) Any of very many derivatives of methane.

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