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black smoker

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black smoker
See under hydrothermal vent.


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About 70 percent of black smokers used menthol cigarettes, compared to 30 percent of white smokers.
It will be used near sea chimneys - called black smokers - that are formed when magma-heated water shoots up through the earth's crust, bringing with it gold, silver, copper and zinc.
The mid-Atlantic ridge does contain, however, similar volcanic black smoker vents that help concentrate valuable minerals.
 
 
 
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