abducted

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Along with Yong Jae Lee of Yonsei University in South Korea, Shim and his team have demonstrated through high-pressure experiments that subducted water chemically reacts with core materials.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

The host rocks to the diamonds became buoyant during diamond formation, transporting subducted mantle material plus the diamonds.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

That research looked at imaging of Earth's middle layer, the mantle, where the subducted crust ends up.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

That jagged structure, coupled with geologic models, suggests that the layer is made up of subducted seafloor, the paper’s authors conclude.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023

And thus though the same quantity of heat is subducted from the skin, yet the torpor of the pulmonary vessels and internal glands does not follow.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus