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However, it apparently would not be precipitated because when such air descends in the center of the anti-cyclone it is warmed adiabatically, that is, by compression.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

The heat supply is stopped at a certain period, and then the fluid adiabatically expands until the temperature falls to the lowest temperature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

A solution which is diluted by a reversible method is cooled like a gas which expands adiabatically.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien