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Electrical Current Generation across a Black Smoker Chimney
Author(s) -
Nakamura Ryuhei,
Takashima Toshihiro,
Kato Souichiro,
Takai Ken,
Yamamoto Masahiro,
Hashimoto Kazuhito
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201003311
Subject(s) - chimney (locomotive) , current (fluid) , electrical current , hydrothermal circulation , energy transfer , point (geometry) , computer science , environmental science , mechanical engineering , physics , electrical engineering , engineering physics , engineering , chemical engineering , mathematics , geometry , inlet
Some like it hot : Metal‐like electrical conduction and electrocatalytic function of a black smoker chimney point to a possible new form of energy transfer from hot, reductive hydrothermal fluid to cold, oxygenated seawater by electrical current generation in the sulfide chimney wall.