What is Methane?
{{Chembox | Verifiedfields = changed | Watchedfields = changed | verifiedrevid = 464371375 | Name = | ImageFile = Methane-2D-dimensions.svg | ImageFile_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageSize = 170 | ImageName = Stereo, skeletal formula of methane with some measurements added | ImageFileL1 = Methane.Structural_formula.V1.svg | ImageFileL1_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageNameL1 = Ball and stick model of methane | ImageFileR1 = Methane-3D-space-filling.svg | ImageFileR1_Ref = {{chemboximage|correct|??}} | ImageNameR1 = Spacefill model of methane | PIN = Methane<ref name=iupac2013>{{cite book | title = Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book) | publisher = [[Royal Society of Chemistry|The Royal Society of Chemistry]] | date = 2014 | location = Cambridge | pages = 3–4 | doi = 10.1039/9781849733069-FP001 | isbn = 978-0-85404-182-4 | quote = Methane is a retained name (see P-12.3) that is preferred to the systematic name ‘carbane’, a name never recommended to replace methane, but used to derive the names ‘carbene’ and ‘carbyne’ for the radicals H<sub>2</sub>C<sup>2•</sup> and HC<sup>3•</sup>, respectively.| chapter = Front Matter }}</ref> | SystematicName = Carbane (never recommended<ref name=iupac2013 />) | OtherNames = {{Unbulleted list|Marsh gas|Natural gas|Carbon tetrahydride|Hydrogen carbide}} | IUPACName = | Section1 = {{Chembox Identifiers | CASNo = 74-82-8 | CASNo_Ref = {{cascite|correct|CAS}} | PubChem = 297 | ChemSpiderID = 291 | ChemSpiderID_Ref = {{chemspidercite|correct|chemspider}} | EINECS = 200-812-7 | UNNumber = 1971 | KEGG = C01438 | KEGG_Ref = {{keggcite|confirmed|kegg}} | MeSHName = Methane | ChEBI = 16183 | ChEBI_Ref = {{ebicite|correct|EBI}} | ChEMBL = 17564 | ChEMBL_Ref = {{ebicite|correct|EBI}} | RTECS = PA1490000 | Beilstein = 1718732 | Gmelin = 59 | 3DMet = B01453 | SMILES = C | StdInChI = 1S/CH4/h1H4 | StdInChI_Ref = {{stdinchicite|correct|chemspider}} | StdInChIKey = VNWKTOKETHGBQD-UHFFFAOYSA-N | StdInChIKey_Ref = {{stdi