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Air doesn't necessarily cool as it moves up, generally hotter air is lighter and so moves upward.

However in the atmosphere the pressure gradually decreases with altitude, pressure and temperature are state functions and change according to one another. Generally if the pressure decreases (as it does with altitude) the temperature too, decreases.

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