black smoker

American  

[blak smoh-ker] / ˈblæk ˈsmoʊ kər /

noun

1. Oceanography. a type of high-temperature hydrothermal vent, so named for the black metal sulfide particles that it spews.

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black smoker Scientific  

1. See under hydrothermal vent

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Example Sentences

Shop students are building a giant black smoker on the bed of a trailer, which they hope to use next year in regional brisket and ribs cook-offs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Figure 20.5 Left: A black smoker on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

What is the composition of the black smoke in a black smoker, and how does that relate to a volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit?

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

An image of a black smoker at the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

From Scientific American • Jun. 4, 2012

And in the last two years scientists probing the East Scotia Ridge — some 8500 feet from the surface — stumbled into a deep-sea black smoker system encrusted with, of all things, yeti crabs.

From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2012