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Give an example of a process that converts thermal energy into gravitational energy. Can this process...

Give an example of a process that converts thermal energy into gravitational energy. Can this process convert all thermal energy into gravitational energy? If so, does this process have to consume energy from external sources? If not, which part of the process must lose thermal energy to the environment?

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when air is heated than it rises up and this process will increases the potential energy of air but all of the thermal energy is not converted into potential energy some of them are converted to increase the internal energy of air and some of the energy are released back to atmosphere

As air is moving upward its potential energy is increasing but it also looses its thermal energy to atmosphere because surrounding temperature at higher altitude are colder than the bottom temperature.  

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