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Encyclopedia Britannica



FUMAROLE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 301 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FUMAROLE , a vent from which volcanic vapours issue, named indirectly from the Lat. fumariolum, a smoke-hole.
Fumaric acid.
The vapours from fumaroles were studied first by R. W.
Bunsen
 , on his visit to
Iceland
 , and afterwards by H. Sainte-Claire Deville and other chemists and geologists in
France
 , who examined the vapours from Santorin, Etna, &c. The hottest vapours issue from dry fumaroles, at temperatures of at least sod' C., and consist chiefly of anhydrous chlorides, notably sodium chloride. The acid fumaroles yield vapours of Tower temperature (3000 to 400) containing much water vapour, with hydrogen chloride and
sulphur
  dioxide. The alkaline fumaroles are still cooler, though above too, and evolve ammonium chloride with other vapours. Cold fumaroles, below too, discharge principally aqueous vapour, with carbon dioxide, and perhaps hydrogen sulphide. The fumaroles of Mont Pele in Martinique during the eruption of 1902 were examined by A. Lacroix, and the vapours analysed by H. Moissan, who found that they consisted chiefly of water vapour, with hydrogen chloride,
sulphur
 , carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and argon. These vapours issued at a temperature of about 400. Armand
Gautier
  has pointed out that these gases are practically of the same composition as those which he obtained on
heating
  granite and certain other rocks. (See
VOLCANO
 ).


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