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What is the appropriate term for the movement of the orange liquid in the lava lamp animation?
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What is the appropriate term for the movement of the orange liquid in the lava lamp animation?

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Heat energy is responsible for it.It is because the waxy substance present in the lava lamp get hot at its bottom and cold on its top and this process is mostly like convection
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