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An interesting question. The answer is yes but you would have to look for a very, very long time to see evidence of this happening - The example I would point to is the convection driving the plate tectonic system in the Earth. This is moving the continents of Europe and America apart at a rate of about 2 cm a year.
The fact is that, given enough time, nothing is actually solid - have you ever played with silly putty? if you role it into a ball it will bounce, if you pull it hard it will break, if you pull it slowly it will stretch. It is the same with solids, given enough time they will 'flow' and deform in response to a force.
Thus on human time scales, solids do not undergo convection, but on geological time scales they doundergo convection.
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∙ 14y agoAtoms in solids move about, but they bump into each other and do not leave their relative places. Heat is a measurement of how fast they move. As a solid heats, the atoms in it move faster. They bump into neighboring atoms harder, making them move faster, too. The neighboring atoms transfer heat in the same way to other, more distant, atoms. And so the heat flows.
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∙ 14y agoYes the vibration of molecules (heat) gets transmitted from one molecule to its neighbors and thus heat is conducted in all materials solids and liquids and gases alike. In the case of a solid the molecules that vibrate more (are hotter) cannot move as freely as in liquids and gases but they do bump into neighbors and share their energy (transfer heat).
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∙ 13y agoConvection is the movement of a medium to transfer heat energy fom one place to another. A solid, depending on your definition, will not transfer heat by convection because the solid does not move. A liquid will transfer heat by convection because the individual particles obtain heat from the source, move to a cooler place, and discharge their heat.
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∙ 15y agoyes it does!
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What type of energy transfer is the transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity?
Because of molecular vibration the heat transferred through a solid is called CONDUCTION
What is canvection and what is coduction?
I think you mean convection and conduction. The first is the transfer of energy through a fluid and the second through a solid. The third way, through a vacuum, is radiation.
What are 3 types of energy transfer?
The three types of energy transfers are: Conduction, the transfer by energy moving through a solid; Convection, the transfer of energy in a gas or a liquid; and Radiation, the transfer of energy through space. Conduction is how a stove warms the contents of a pan. As the pan heats up, the material inside in contact with the pan gets warm. Convection is what happens when a heater warms the air around it, causing it to rise, which creates lower pressure near the heat source, causing cooler air to flow in. Convection is a result of the differences in density resulting from differences in temperature. Convection does not work in a zero gravity environment. Radiation is how the Sun warms the Earth. Energy travels through empty space until it strikes the Earth, causing it to warm.
How does energy travel to Earth?
There are three types of transferrable energy: conduction, convection, and radiation. Conduction- heat that moves from solid object to solid object by physical means. Convection- heat that moves about a gaseous object (think about boiling water) Radiation- light energy that can travel through space and needs no object to transfer through. The correct answer for this question would be radiation.
What is the scientific definition for transfer?
A form of energy associated with the motion of atoms or molecules and capable of being transmitted through solid and fluid media by conduction, through fluid media by convection, and through empty space by radiation.
What type of energy transfer is the transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity?
Because of molecular vibration the heat transferred through a solid is called CONDUCTION
What is canvection and what is coduction?
I think you mean convection and conduction. The first is the transfer of energy through a fluid and the second through a solid. The third way, through a vacuum, is radiation.
What are 3 types of energy transfer?
The three types of energy transfers are: Conduction, the transfer by energy moving through a solid; Convection, the transfer of energy in a gas or a liquid; and Radiation, the transfer of energy through space. Conduction is how a stove warms the contents of a pan. As the pan heats up, the material inside in contact with the pan gets warm. Convection is what happens when a heater warms the air around it, causing it to rise, which creates lower pressure near the heat source, causing cooler air to flow in. Convection is a result of the differences in density resulting from differences in temperature. Convection does not work in a zero gravity environment. Radiation is how the Sun warms the Earth. Energy travels through empty space until it strikes the Earth, causing it to warm.
How does energy travel to Earth?
There are three types of transferrable energy: conduction, convection, and radiation. Conduction- heat that moves from solid object to solid object by physical means. Convection- heat that moves about a gaseous object (think about boiling water) Radiation- light energy that can travel through space and needs no object to transfer through. The correct answer for this question would be radiation.
What is the scientific definition for transfer?
A form of energy associated with the motion of atoms or molecules and capable of being transmitted through solid and fluid media by conduction, through fluid media by convection, and through empty space by radiation.
What are the different types of transfer?
The three types of energy transfers are: Conduction, the transfer by energy moving through a solid; Convection, the transfer of energy in a gas or a liquid; and Radiation, the transfer of energy through space. Conduction is how a stove warms the contents of a pan. As the pan heats up, the material inside in contact with the pan gets warm. Convection is what happens when a heater warms the air around it, causing it to rise, which creates lower pressure near the heat source, causing cooler air to flow in. Convection is a result of the differences in density resulting from differences in temperature. Convection does not work in a zero gravity environment. Radiation is how the Sun warms the Earth. Energy travels through empty space until it strikes the Earth, causing it to warm.
Which state of matter is least likely to transfer heat by convection?
Solid state because the particles are unable to circulate. Liquid and gas both transfer by convection.
The transfer of heat from one thing to another by direct physical contact?
Conduction is the transfer of heat throgh solid objects in direct contact. The other two types of heat transfer are convection (through liquids and gases) and radiation (through gases and a vacuum).
How is energy conducted through a non-metallic solid?
the transfer of energy via the vibrating molecules of solids
What is transfer of thermal energy from one substance to another?
This is heating and cooling. Direct transfer from one solid to another is conduction. Transferring through fluids (liquids or gases) normally uses convection. and heat being projected through a space, usually as light or infra-red, is radiation.Heat is the term that defines something that transfers thermal energy efficiently.
How is energy transferred by conduction and radiation?
Carbon does not transfer via radiation. Carbon can only "conduct" in the sense that it can diffuse through a solid if the temperature is high enough. Carbon can convect in convective models, and the analyses of both heat transfer and mass transfer in solid surface - fluid mediums are *very* similar.
How do you explain the difference between conduction convection or radiation can transfer heat explain?
It's a different way to transfer heat. One object emits electromagnetic radiation (for example, infrared - though it depends on the temperature); another object absorbs it. Heat transfer through radiation can occur in empty space; with conduction and convection, that's not possible.
