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Meaning of hydrothermal vent | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.

Equivalents

Suomi vedenalainen kuumavesilähde

Examples

“Everything fed from the heat and chemistry oozing from hydrothermal vents.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

hydrothermalism Hydrothermally hydrothermolysis hydrotherophyte hydrothiolation hydrothorax

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