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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A region of turbulent plasma located within a star, through which energy is transported outward by convection. In a convection zone, hot plasma rises, cools as it recedes from the hot stellar center, and then falls to be heated and rise again.
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