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thermohaline convection comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
convection	mass motion	A mass motion in a circulatory pattern. Process in the Sun (and possibly other stars) perhaps caused by solar rotation, which produces the immensely powerful electrical and magnetic fields associated with sunspots.
thermohaline convection	convection	A type of hydrodynamic instability.

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