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We're taught that hot air rises and cold air sinks, because cold air is more dense and vice versa. But if gravity acts upon mass, ie the individual molecules, why does an individual molecule of hot air get pulled differently from one of cold air?

by /u/MareSerenitatis in /r/askscience

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