convectionin a sentence
- 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.† (source)
- The endlessly boiling convection zone situated outside the radiation zone was the outermost liquid layer of the sun.† (source)
- For example, we can't use them on the jungle river, because the movement of the water and the convection rising from the surface screws up the sensors.† (source)
- The ceiling stretched away high enough to continue the natural supporting curve of the rock and to permit internal air-convection currents.† (source)
- Most important, a deadly convection column never established itself in the immediate area so a blanket of killing heat and fire did not cover her.† (source)
- Fortunately the reactor was able to run on such low power without the use of a coolant pump, since coolant could be transferred by normal convection circulation.† (source)
- As soon as the guy started talking about convection, he was gone.† (source)
- There wasn't room for them all in one row, so Annie and Grace had sat a row in front where a shaft of sun angled down from a window, trapping slow convections of dust.† (source)
- A barbecue cook must have an intimate understanding of his work, the physics of fire and convection, the hard science of meat and heat and smoke--and then forget it all to achieve a sort of gut-level, Zen instinct for the process.† (source)
- To achieve even that degree of efficiency will require solid and continuous transfer, which requires a low rotational period to prevent convection transfer.† (source)
- A convection oven cooks faster than a conventional oven.
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- Gleaming in the brilliant midday sun, they appeared no different from the harmless puffs of convection condensation that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.† (source)
- The answer was simple: In addition to the selectivity of the energy mirrors for frequencies they would reflect, the main reason was the shielding effect of the solar convection zone.† (source)
- The radio waves coming from space must first penetrate the convection zone to reach the energy mirrors in the radiation zone, where they would be amplified and reflected back out.† (source)
- Convection?† (source)
- But the drops were palpably water, and as they fell, the wind grew stronger and stronger, and suddenly — probably because of the tremendous convection set up by the blazing city — a whirlwind ripped through the park.† (source)
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