Definition of CONVECT

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In 1979, a French scientist, Albert J. Libchaber, observed the same cascade of period doublings in the temperature fluctuations in the center of a convecting fluid. — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, "Mitchell Feigenbaum, Physicist, Dies at 74; He Made Sense of Chaos," 18 July 2019 Soon the street was alive with cool zephyrs that convected over the xeriscaped lawns and twined around the cacti and Little Free Libraries and the bare knees and ankles of the people of Lima Street. — Cory Doctorow, The Atlantic, "The City of Coordinated Leisure," 28 Feb. 2018 A moon rock brought back by astronauts from the last Apollo mission in 1972 has finally proven its worth by revealing that the moon used to have a hot, convecting molten core that generated a magnetic field. — Clara Moskowitz, WIRED, "Moon Rock Reveals Hot Molten Core," 15 Jan. 2009

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