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Q2 Why was finding natural methane hydrate in the 1960s so important?
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Have you ever heard of methane hydrate? It looks
like ice and consists of methane and water. It is often
called “burning ice.” If you touch a lighted match to
it, it will start burning. Only water is left.
As early as the 1930s, natural-gas workers in Siberia
knew about a similar gas hydrate. They complained

9.according to: According to my grandfather, few people used computers at that time.
Methane Hydrate
that something like ice was clogging the pipelines. They
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wondered how it formed.
Some years later, scientists began to do research on
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this problem.In the 1960s they discovered natural
Why was finding
natural methane
methane hydrate in the natural-gas fields in Siberia.
hydrate in the 1960s
so important?
This meant the gas hydrate could be a new source of
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energy. But the problem was where to find large
amounts of it.
According to one theory, the remains of plankton
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Ocean floor and slowly changed to methane. The cold
temperature and high pressure caused the methane to
become covered in ice. So scientists expected that
methane hydrate
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areas and below
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the ocean floor.
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containing methane
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いぐあな

問題文の意味はなぜ1960年の自然ガスの発見がそんなに大切なのか？です
本文の同じような文を探すとここにあり
その下のthis meantでこの文を言い換えているのでその文が答えになります。
Because the gas hydrate could be a new source of energy.
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あな

大変わかりやすく、
ありがとうございました(o_ _)o