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I'm sometimes white but most often I'm black. I take you there but never bring you back.
I have roots that no one sees and I am taller than trees. Up, up I go, but never do I grow. What am I?
What begins with an E but only has one letter?
I can be swallowed But I can also swallow you.
Teenage girls are pros at creating me. Learn me in classes.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.