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Partial melting of the mantle releases CO2 that becomes entrained in hydrothermal fluid, reacts with the mantle closer to the seafloor, and is captured there.

The colossus is presently entrained in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the great sweep of water that circles the continent in a clockwise direction.

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The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.

“That will allow us to remain more stably entrained to the light-dark cycle,” Zee says.

In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.

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