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It is formed by decayed animal matter which buried under the Earth with heat and pressure becomes natural gas coal and oil The natural gas sometimes goes into large cracks in rocks They may also form in large area of rock of sandstone shale and other types of sedimentary rock Sometimes natural gas may be found in coal we can extract this by mining coal We extract this fossil fuel using wells Scientists find which rocks are most likely to contain natural gas using seismic surveys We use small explosives sometimes being harmful to the environment If a site seems as if it might contain natural gas wells are drilled down into the Earth and natural gas fills up the wells Sometimes we use material to break down shale or sandstone and the gas fills the wells The use of natural gas is growing We apply most of it to create electricity through turbines The main component of natural gas is methane a chemical compound and the simplest form of alkane a series of hydrocarbons including propane Those are the details which explain what natural gas is Is it a Good Energy Source Natural gas costs 0 0219 per more than 28 litres and propane another type of gas we use to heat our water and for cooking and powering vehicles with engines Propane costs 0 0392 for the same amount of litres as natural gas Though there are definitely negatives to this fossil fuel which we identify as natural gas and all of these problems are environmental
