thermal vent

1. An opening in the Earth, especially on the ocean floor, that emits hot water and dissolved minerals.

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Example Sentences

During a recent screening of thermal vent clones — the ones Ng collected back in 2001 — Singhal found seven new hits with “substantial” antibacterial activity.

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Some coins were to be expected: Who among us hasn’t flipped a good-luck penny into a thermal vent?

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The United Nations drones have cameras that can capture still pictures and video day or night, and infrared sensors that can pick up hot spots, which around here could be a burned village or a thermal vent from a volcano.

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