Related to or produced by the movement of heated material that rises and cooler material that sinks, creating circulation.
Derived from Latin 'convectus' with the adjectival suffix '-ive,' first used in scientific contexts in the 1800s to describe heat transfer mechanisms.
Convective currents in Earth's mantle actually move the continents around—the same process that boils your soup is slowly rearranging the entire planet!
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