steam vent

collocation in English

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steam
noun[U]
uk
/stiːm/us
/stiːm/
the hot gas that is produced when ...
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vent
noun
uk
/vent/us
/vent/
a small opening that allows air, smoke, or gas to enter or leave a ...
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(Definition ofsteamandventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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On modern pressure cookers, food residues blocking thesteamventor the liquid boiling dry will trigger additional safety devices.
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For pressure cookers with a weight, the weight is placed over thesteamventpipe while steam is being emitted, to ensure the air inside has escaped.
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A typical samovar consists of a body, base and chimney, cover andsteamvent, handles, faucet and key, crown and ring, chimney extension and cap, drip-bowl, and teapot.
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Tourists can walk across the crater and view phenomena such as bubbling mud pools, steam vents, and sulfur deposits.
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There is extensive geothermal activity in the area, including numerous hot springs, steam vents, and fumaroles.
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It was prepared by peeling the young fronds or placing the entire trunk with the starchy center in an imu or volcanic steam vents.
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Steam vents were reported active at the slide source for three years, leading to speculation that the event was started with a small steam explosion.
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The local geothermal activity produces many steam vents, visible throughout the surrounding mountains.
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A forest of small trees covers the crater floor, and small steam vents are found spaced around the walls of the crater.
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Steam vents and fumarolic activity continues from fissures within the caldera and along the flanks of the volcano.
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It included a dinner cooked over lava steam vents.
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However, by 1992, although there were 25 solfataras, a boiling hot spring and several steam vents, no eruption had taken place.
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Some container consists of three parts: an outer bowl, a fitted lid with steam vents, and an inner bowl with a finely perforated base.
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Sulfuric springs and steam vents, largely concentrated in the central and southern parts of the island, remain active, however.
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There are several natural bubbling mudpots and steam vents.
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Inside the crater is a large sulphurous crater lake and several active steam vents.
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As heat has dissipated from the deposits the steam vents have subsided and the valley has been eroded.
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The mountain range is very fumarolic with several solfataras and steam vents located on its slope that are harnessed to generate electricity.
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On the way, they passed at least two active volcanic steam vents.
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Small fumaroles and steam vents can regularly be observed within the forested caldera from above.
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