Methane — License & Provenance

CAS 74-82-8 · CH4 · MolGod 3D molecular model

Identity

Model identifierMG-STL-74-82-8
CAS Registry Number74-82-8
Name sourcecache cas-*.json field "title" (angielski)
Molecular formulaCH4
PubChem CID297
InChIKeyVNWKTOKETHGBQD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
WikidataQ37129
MolGod molecule recordMethane (CAS 74-82-8) — molecule record
MolGod product pageMethane — safety data sheet

Geometry provenance

SourcePubChem (source record type not recorded for this substance)
EndpointNot recorded in the MolGod cache entry for this substance.
Dimensionality3d
Retrieved2026-09-28 18:16:31
Atoms / bonds5 / 4
ModificationNone. Atomic coordinates and connectivity are used unchanged; no geometry was modelled, adjusted or inferred.

Preview

3D molecular model of Methane (CAS 74-82-8), ball-and-stick representation, rendered from the MolGod STL filePobierz obraz


Rendered from this exact STL file, not from a second source. Single material — the STL format carries no colour channel. Colours in the preview are assigned by the renderer from the element palette and are not part of the downloadable geometry.

Engraved variant

3D molecular model of Methane (CAS 74-82-8), engraved variant: element symbols recessed into each atom sphere, rendered from the MolGod STL filePobierz obraz

The element symbol is cut into the sphere, not printed on it. That single difference is what this variant is for.

Why the preview looks the way it does. A carved letter has no colour of its own — on a pale atom it would disappear into the highlight. The preview is rendered from the mesh itself with ray-traced cavity shading, so recesses darken because they are recessed, not because we painted them. What you see is the geometry you will receive. The element colours follow the same palette as the interactive viewer on this site, so the model and the viewer never disagree about what an atom is.

Element symbols are recessed into the atom spheres. Mesh: 50,178 triangles versus 1,984.

Download engraved variant: molgod-74-82-8-engraved.stl (2 MB)
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Artefact

FormatSTL (binary). Coordinate convention: ångström (Å) — STL itself stores no unit metadata. Slicers read STL as millimetres by default, so set the scale deliberately before printing.
Downloadmolgod-74-82-8.stl (97 KB)
SHA-25655925b176fa93349e20cd066671ee1b5569186d68d03a743024be2f13b829246
MD5db5064fe0843f707b53ee81414117670
Size99,284 bytes
Triangles1,984
Mesh5 atom spheres + 4 bond cylinders, each a closed outward-oriented solid; the solids intersect by design.
Atomic radiivan der Waals radii, Bondi 1964 (doi:10.1021/j100785a001). Sphere scale and bond radius are presentation parameters, not chemical quantities.
ExporterMolGod STL Exporter build a53b3c2cff9c
Validatorwaliduj_stl.py PASS at export; external cross-check (trimesh/numpy-stl) NOT PERFORMED for this model
Generated2026-10-01T01:40:09Z
The STL format stores no bond-order or colour metadata. Aromatic and single bonds are rendered as identical cylinders; bond orders are preserved in this record and in the accompanying metadata, not in the mesh. In the engraved variant bond order is additionally represented geometrically, by distinct bond-cylinder arrangements — that is geometry, not file metadata.

License

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0 International
CreatorMolGod Scientific
Required attribution"Methane (CAS 74-82-8) — 3D molecular model" by MolGod Scientific, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 International. Rendered as a triangulated mesh (van der Waals spheres and bond cylinders) from the PubChem-computed 3D conformer; atomic coordinates and connectivity unchanged. Source: https://molgod.org/licenses/stl/74-82-8/
Wikimedia Commons tag{{Cc-by-sa-4.0}}
Source representationPubChem record; a PubChem-computed 3D conformer is not confirmed for this record, so MolGod does not claim it is a PubChem-computed conformer.
Source rights basisNCBI Molecular Data Usage Policy. NCBI does not itself restrict use or redistribution of molecular data, but does not transfer rights that individual depositors may hold.
Rights assessmentcompatible — MolGod's own determination that this computed conformer may serve as the geometric basis of a derived mesh. This is not a licence grant by the source. The measured basis is that the conformer is computed by PubChem rather than deposited by a third party. A formal legal assessment of downstream rights has not been carried out; that risk is accepted explicitly and recorded in the MolGod decision register (2026-09-25).
Assessment scopeThis assessment covers only the computed 3D conformer used as geometric input. It does not extend to depositor data obtained from PubChem — names, spectra, physicochemical values or anything else.
Source URLPubChem CID 297
Source license termsNCBI Policies and Disclaimers
Source licensing guidancePubChem data downloads & licensing — PubChem states that an individual data source may provide its own licence terms and that these should be checked per source. This model uses a PubChem-computed conformer, not depositor-supplied data.
Attribution URLhttps://molgod.org/molecule/74-82-8/
License & provenance URLhttps://molgod.org/licenses/stl/74-82-8/
ScopeThis license applies to the MolGod-created STL mesh, not automatically to third-party source material.
Licence terms & attributionMolGod licence and attribution rules →

Licence grant. MolGod Scientific, the creator and copyright holder of the STL mesh MG-STL-74-82-8 (SHA-256 55925b176fa93349e20cd066671ee1b5569186d68d03a743024be2f13b829246), hereby releases it under the CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence. The release covers the MolGod-created mesh only, not third-party source material (see Scope above).

The license above is the legal instrument and is granted by its official Creative Commons deed. This page is the MolGod provenance record for the artefact; it documents the source and the pipeline, and does not impose any condition beyond those of the license itself.