methane from coal caroon (IMAGE)
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The process that microbes use to create a methane precursor molecule from coal. Anaerobic microbes live in the pore spaces between coal. They produce enzymes that they excrete into the pore space onto the coal structure. That enzyme breaks off a methoxyl group to produce a methane precursor molecule.
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Max Lloyd, Penn State
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