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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.
June Douglas
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∙ 10y agoThe definition of convection is "The movement in a gas or liquid in which the warmer parts move up and the colder parts move down."
By this definition the term does not apply to solids
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Energy that is transmitted primarily through solids?
Conduction :)
Heat convection occurs in gases and liquids Heat convection does not occur in solids because solids are unable to?
transfer heat by fluid motion
Does convention occurs in solids?
Convection of mass cannot take place in solids, since neither bulk current flows nor significant diffusion can take place in solids. Diffusion of heat can take place in solids, but is referred to separately in that case as heat convection.
What types of physical or state changes can solids undergo?
the solids can turn to liquids by melting and to gas by sublimation
Why convection occurs only the liquid s and gases only but not in solids?
The molecules in solids are not free to move around as they are in liquids and gasses. It's the movement of the molecules that creates the convection currents.
Energy that is transmitted primarily through solids?
Conduction :)
Heat convection occurs in gases and liquids Heat convection does not occur in solids because solids are unable to?
transfer heat by fluid motion
Why the classical theory of solids cannot explain the theory of solids?
please explain
Does convention occurs in solids?
Convection of mass cannot take place in solids, since neither bulk current flows nor significant diffusion can take place in solids. Diffusion of heat can take place in solids, but is referred to separately in that case as heat convection.
What types of physical or state changes can solids undergo?
the solids can turn to liquids by melting and to gas by sublimation
Why convection currents can be set up in liquids and gases but not in solids?
Matter doesn't move easily in solids.
How does heat flow in solids and fluids?
Either by conduction or convection?
How energy transferred through convection?
by The movement of heated particles of a gas or a liquid. convection cannot take place in solids because solids have fixed shape. particles like Pizza
How is energy transferred through convection.?
by The movement of heated particles of a gas or a liquid. convection cannot take place in solids because solids have fixed shape. particles like Pizza
Why convection occurs only the liquid s and gases only but not in solids?
The molecules in solids are not free to move around as they are in liquids and gasses. It's the movement of the molecules that creates the convection currents.
Explain how thermal energy moves in gases compared to the way it moves in soilds?
In gases mainly by convection, that is by bulk movement of molecules of the gas. In solids by conduction, that is by contact between atoms of the material.
When Heat convection occurs in gases and liquids heat conviction does not occur in solids because solids are unable to?
..to flow as easily. A malleable (space between particles) structure is need for convection to take place.
