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Just as hot electric-stove elements radiate light, black smokers glow dimly as 400[degrees] C fluid emerges. Geologists and engineers will need to develop new technologies to haul the black smokers to the surface so they can extract the precious metals embedded in them. These underwater volcanoes, known as black smokers, are home to a strange array of creatures found nowhere else, as well as to many species of archaea. |
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