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(thermodynamics) A process in which the temperature of a system is reduced without any heat being exchanged between the system and its surroundings.

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What word describes the cooling of a gas by expansion?

Adiabatic cooling.


Adiabatic processes cause cooling by?

Adiabatic processes cause cooling by allowing a gas to expand, which reduces the gas's temperature due to the conversion of internal energy into work. This decrease in temperature occurs without any heat exchange with the surroundings, resulting in cooling of the system.


What is adiabotic cooling?

Adiabatic cooling deals with the cooling of parcels of air as they rise, or are forced up, through the atmosphere.


What is the name of cooling for a rising air parcel?

This is usually adiabatic cooling. Adiabatic refers to a process that does not exchange heat with the air around it. Air that is adiabatically cooled is cooled only because the decreasing pressure with height forces it to cool.


What is the rate of cooling as you increase in elevation?

The rate at which adiabatic cooling occurs with increasing altitude for wet air (air containing clouds or other visible forms of moisture) is called the wet adiabatic lapse rate, the moist adiabatic lapse rate, or the saturated adiabatic lapse rate.


What is adiabatic cooling?

Adiabatic cooling is cooling that occurs without removing any energy from the system. It often occurs when a gas is decompressed. Adiabatic heating and cooling play an important role in weather.


Is temperature affected by elevation?

Yes. It is called adiabatic heating & cooling.


Does adiabatic cooling relate to cloud formation?

Adiabatic cooling relates to cloud formation in such, when it pushes air out of the way when rising, energy is released into the surroundings and the air cools "adiabatically." When the air that is cooling meets up with other air that is in the same situation, a cloud starts to forms, and when that cloud forms, it cools enough when it reaches a certain altitude and rains.


The wet adiabatic rate of cooling is less than the dry rate?

of the release of latent heat


How is adiabatic cooling better than liquid cooling?

Adiabatic cooling happens when air cannot expand or compress. A liquid cooling system uses a special integrated pump, reservoir and a cold plate unit. The process for liquid cooling is long and complicated to fit in a small box. Check out Asetek where you can read the entire process and see a demonstration.


Changes in temperature that result from the cooling of rising air or the warming of sinking air are?

Adiabatic


What fog results from adiabatic cooling?

Upslope is the only possibility because it's the only one where the air is rising.