vortical

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The tallest peak in Indonesia, Tambora exploded in April 1815, consuming whole villages in “a vortical hell of flames, ash, boiling magma and hurricane-strength winds.”

From Washington Post

But if the current of their conversation had been vortical and crowded, the outcome was perfectly clear.

From Project Gutenberg

This return will then take the form of violent storms of wind, usually of a cyclonic nature, and affording direct evidence of the tendency of the air masses to pursue vortical paths in their movement towards lower levels.

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On the contrary, they may and do move both towards the poles and downwards by circuitous and even vortical paths.

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Stratification of the mixture has been claimed as taking place in the clearance chamber of the cylinder; but this is not a satisfactory explanation in view of the vortical effect of the violent injection of the air and gas or vapor mixture.

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