thermal vent
noun
an opening in the Earth, especially on the floor of the sea, from which hot, mineral-rich solutions are released.
thermal vents
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pluralof thermal vent.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He whisks the reader from oceanic thermal vents through the rise of mammals to the emergence of human language, peppering the text with goofy drawings and personal anecdotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Like when I started learning about thermal vents, and basically, they’re powering Norway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
Other organisms that live in extremely hot environments, such as deep-sea thermal vents, have specialized polymerase molecules that can withstand the heat that would quickly denature the polymerases in land-based animals.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Seawater leached chemicals from rocks; near thermal vents, those chemicals jostled and combined.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
In some instances, the bombardment created crevices and generated significant heat, forming thermal vents that many believe were natural laboratories for brewing up the organic compounds that led to life.
From National Geographic
