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Q: What happens to air when it is adiabatically compressed?
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What happens to air when it is compressed or allow to expand?

It cools, and when it is compressed, it warms


What happens when a compressed air can gets hot?

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Does rising air expand or contract?

Rising air cools and compresses adiabatically.


Does Rising air cool and expand?

Correct; it does so adiabatically.


What happens to air when air compresses?

When air is compressed temperature increases because of the collission and vibration of molecules


Can clouds be compressed?

Technically they can be as most of their volume is gaseous. However you compress a cloud it will warm adiabatically, and with enough heating from compression the cloud will evaporate.


When a volume of air is compressed what happens to its temperature?

Obviously the temperature of air will increase. Because when you compress the air you are doing some work on the air which in turn is converted into heat and thus increase the temperature of compressed air


What happens in the upstroke of the piston in the crankcase in a four stoke engine?

On compression the air is compressed, and on exhaust it is forced out of the cylinder.On compression the air is compressed, and on exhaust it is forced out of the cylinder.


What happens to air temperature when it is compressed or allowed to expand?

Heats with compression, cools with expansion.


What is the study of compressed air?

compressed air science


How do stratus clouds form?

stratus clouds come from an inversion,i.e, when rthere is warmer air above colder air. that happens mostly in a high pressure where air from above sinks as the pressure increases and warms up adiabatically. Stratus in greek means: layer


When cool dry air sinks from the upper atmosphere toward the Earth's surface what happens?

water vapor happens or gas flows into the air