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Convection

"Convection" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Transmission of energy or mass by a medium involving movement of the medium itself. The circulatory movement that occurs in a fluid at a nonuniform temperature owing to the variation of its density and the action of gravity. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed; Webster, 10th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Convection" by people in this website by year, and whether "Convection" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2006 and 2013
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