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
Plasma convection -- the large-scale flow of charged particles within the magnetosphere -- drives many dynamic space phenomena.
From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2025
However, decades of helioseismic studies have revealed conflicting information about how these flows behave deep inside the convection zone.
From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025
During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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