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Most substances expand as they get hotter. When a gas or a liquid expands within an environment of denser and cooler gas or liquid, it will rise. What often happens to the rising material is that at some point it cools off and returns downward, so a circular current is formed, rising and falling. That is called a convection current. Convection can be defined as a heat driven motion of a fluid.

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