Clathrate hydrates (or gas clathrates, gas hydrates, clathrates, hydrates, etc.) are crystalline water-based solids physically resembling ice, in which small non-polar molecules (typically gases) or polar molecules with large hydrophobic moieties are trapped inside cages of hydrogen bonded, frozen water molecules.n other words, clathrate hydrates are clathrate compounds in which the host molecule is water and the guest molecule is typically a gas or liquid.
Not to be confused with Franklin County, Tennessee. Franklin is a city in and county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. Located about 21 miles south of Nashville, it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area.
Franklin County, Tennessee (TN) County population in 2014: 41,402 (30% urban, 70% rural); it was 39,270 in 2000. County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 6,918. County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 5,368. County owner-occupied houses and condos in 2000: 11,773.