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hydrothermal vent

fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues
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hydrothermal vent

Summary

hydrothermal vent ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,302 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hydrothermal vent is a type of hot spring[2].
  • hydrothermal vent's Commons category is recorded as Hydrothermal vents[3].
  • hydrothermal vent's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hydrothermal vents[4].
  • hydrothermal vent's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000215[5].

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Definition and Type

hydrothermal vent is a type of hot spring[2].

Why It Matters

hydrothermal vent ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,302 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[6] It is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[7]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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