Sentences with phrase «called hydrothermal»

Some thrive near cracks in the ocean floor — called hydrothermal vents — that spew scalding water.

Such reactions in hot water under pressure are called hydrothermal syntheses.

Cooperation with AVA Biochem is part of comprehensive KIT activities for manufacture of chemical energy carriers as well as intermediates from biomass with emphasis on so - called hydrothermal methods i.e. reactions in water at increased temperatures.

What we have found out since then: These «black smokers,» also called hydrothermal vents, exist in all oceans.

Geologists call this hydrothermal activity.

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In the late 1970s, Alvin and his passengers discovered the first known hydrothermal vents, or «black smokers» as they are sometimes called.

Some of the oldest microorganisms on Earth, called methanogens, are often found near hydrothermal vents like those we suspect also exist on Enceladus (see main story).

A research team — Carnegie's Sergey Lobanov and Alexander Goncharov, along with Konstantin Litasov of the Russian Academy of Science and Novosibirsk State University in Russia — focused on the high - pressure chemistry of a carbonate mineral called siderite, which is an iron carbonate, FeCO3, commonly found in hydrothermal vents.

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.

But like the hydrothermal vents, cold seeps can support high densities of specialized life forms through a process called chemosynthesis.