Why is the water in the geyser hot? Detailed answer

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Why is the water in the geyser hot?

Even if a huge jet of water did not hit the air from the geyser, it would still remain one of the most interesting wonders of nature. The geyser is indeed a hot spring, and a hot spring is amazing in itself. Here is a hole in the ground filled with hot water.

Where does this water come from? Why is she hot? And what makes it shoot a fountain into the air, forming a geyser? All geysers have an opening called a tube that leads from the surface of the earth to underground reservoirs that serve as water storages. The main source of water is rain and snow.

In the bowels of the Earth, rocks are very hot. Most likely, this is not a cooled lava, which is called magma. The gases from these hot rocks, mostly steam, rise through cracks in the rock and reach underground reservoirs. Here they heat the water to a boiling point, or even higher. This is how you get a hot spring.

What makes it a geyser? The tube or passage that goes from the water to the hot rocks down (where the heat comes from) has a curved, irregular shape that prevents the steam from simply rising to the surface. If the steam and water were free to come out from below, then it would just be a constantly boiling spring.

The geyser erupts because the water in the stone traps of the underground aquifer system is heated to a boil and immediately turns into steam. Steam needs more space than the water from which it was formed, and therefore it pushes out the water column above it. As the steam moves up, the pressure at the bottom decreases and even more water turns into steam. Instead of quietly flowing to the surface, the water bursts out powerfully due to the steam pushing it out - and we see a geyser!

Author: Likum A.

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