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Because atmospheric air (as opposed to, say, compressed air in a Scuba tank) will expand upon heating, it will become less dense than the air around it. As long as the air around it is more dense, it will rise, due to buoyancy effects. As it rises, the pressure around it drops and it expands more or less isenthapically so that it cools as it rises and becomes more dense. When the density becomes the same as the air around it, it will stop rising. The whole time it is rising it will also be attempting to come to thermal equilibrium as well (i.e. come to the same temperature as the surrounding air).

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