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well
A shaft sunk vertically into the Earth's crust through which water, oil, natural gas, brine, sulfur, and other mineral substances can be extracted. Artesian wells are sunk into water-bearing rock strata, the so-called aquifers, from which water rises under pressure to the surface.
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