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.
The City of Franklin had a population of 955 as of July 1, 2015. The primary coordinate point for Franklin is located at latitude 40.0965 and longitude -98.9514 in Franklin County. The formal boundaries for the City of Franklin (see map below) encompass a land area of 0.99 sq. miles and a water area of 0 sq. miles. Franklin County is in the Central time zone (GMT -6). The elevation is 1,860 feet.