entrained

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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.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

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

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

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.

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2022

Debris can also be seen falling from above and becoming entrained in the apparent vortex, indicative of a probable EF0 or EF1 tornado.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022

When it has no connection with the up take, it may, however, be more properly termed a steam driver, since it serves to separate the steam from entrained water, and does not superheat the steam.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua