Sentences with phrase «black smokers form»

Black smokers form in active volcanic areas.

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The seafloor along the Alarcón Rise is covered in young, fresh lava, and the fluids spewing out of the vents are very hot (up to 360 degrees Celsius) and rich in metal sulfides that form dark, crumbly chimneys known as «black smokers.»

Hot, mineral - rich water jetted from stone structures called black smokers, which are themselves formed by minerals in the water.

In his latest experiment he has shown that with a slurry of ferrous and nickel sulfides to help the reaction, the gases known to be present in black smokers will form acetic acid and an activated form of acetic acid known as a thio ester.

Methane Cold Seeps Methane cold seeps are similar to the more famous black smokers in that they form isolated ecosystems as oasis in the deep ocean, but are lower temperatures and form away from mid-ocean ridges.

More recently, however, microbial life found around hydrothermal vent ecosystems (i.e., the «Lost City» found in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is cooler than those found at «black smokers») indicate that Carbon - 13 is not selected against Carbon - 12 in hydrogen - rich environments where microbial life is starved of carbon, essentially in the form of carbon dioxide (Alexander S. Bradley, Scientific American, December 2009: pp. 62 - 67).

Deep under the ocean on Earth, certain geologically active places have entire ecosystems that thrive in total darkness because hydrothermal vents called «black smokers» supply the needed ingredients in the form of energy - rich chemicals dissolved in superheated water.

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