2131.     ---------------.  [LOEB, W.]  [Action of the Silent Electric Discharge on Moist Methane.]  Ber. deut. chem. Gesell., vol. 41, 1908, pp. 87-90; Chem. Abs., vol. 2, 1908, p. 1122.

        Moist CH₄ was subjected under ordinary pressure to the silent electric discharge and obtained gaseous products consisting of CO₂, C_nH_2n, CO, C_nH_2n+2, and about 35-45% of H₂, and a colorless, insoluble, solid compound of composition C₉H₁₅O.  On decomposition with concentrated H₂SO₄ traces of fatty acids were detected.