On the sea bottom at the Galápagos Rift, water heated to 350°C gushes out of hydrothermal vents at a depth of?

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On the sea bottom at the Galápagos Rift, water heated to 350°C gushes out of hydrothermal vents at a depth of?

On the sea bottom at the Galápagos Rift, water heated to 350°C gushes out of

hydrothermal vents at a depth of 3000 m. Will this water boil or remain liquid at

this depth? The vapor pressure of water is 163 atm is 350°C. (The heat of this

water is used as an energy source by sulfide-oxidizing bacteria contained in the

tissues of tube worms living on the ocean floor.)

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Richard C

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Interesting question. The water that is heated by the geothermal/hydrothermal vents does boil. I could be wrong but there are gases that are "bubbling" out of the vents also. However the water quickly cools because of the enormous amount of colder water available in the ocean. I would assume the vapor pressure is overcome by the pressures of the depths It may be that the gas is sulphur dioxide, but some has to be hydrogen and oxygen.

What do you think the bubbles are, and where does the sulphur find the "O" to combine with?

See:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=...

First, I by no means can quite have an understanding of why all people gets bugs in their pants about the "lacking warmth." The heat goes somewhere. Both out into area or into the oceans. We simply ought to work out where and have the instruments (and it was once the lack of instruments which trembath considered to be the tragedy) to confirm. Nailing the vigour steadiness is most effective a secondary corroboration of the general warming pattern. It's exceptional to must fulfill one of the most naysayers and it helps verify climate models. That mentioned utilising the thermal growth of water is a cheap approach to deduce the temperature upward push in the icy depth. Hard to get enough knowledge facets otherwise. So sure, this suggests the depths as the sink for the lacking warmth, however in of itself, i do not believe the paper, based on the abstract, is adequate. It wishes to be corroborated.