convection
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The team examined whether the plume-like structures detected deep within the Greenland ice sheet could be explained by thermal convection and what this might reveal about the softness and movement of the ice.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
Thermal convection is typically associated with the extremely hot material moving inside Earth's mantle, not with ice.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
According to this idea, the planet was capped by a stiff, unmoving outer shell while heat-driven convection took place deeper in the mantle.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025
This suggests that powerful convection in the star's final years may have dredged up carbon from deep inside, enriching its surface and altering the type of dust it produced.
From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025
He became the world’s foremost authority on thermodynamics and the first to elucidate the principles of the convection of fluids and the circulation of ocean currents.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing convection
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer - Introductory
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