Convective overshoot
= Convective overshoot
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= Convective overshooting
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Convective overshoot carries material from an unstable convecting region into an adjacent stably stratified region because its <momentum> does not vanish at the stability boundary. In stars this mixes material beyond the boundary determined by a local <stellar convective stability> criterion, changing stellar core masses and nuclear lifetimes.