= Stewart–Tolman effect
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The Stewart–Tolman effect, named after physicists Harold Stewart and Richard C. Tolman, refers to an interesting phenomenon in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, particularly in the context of systems with gravitational fields. In essence, the Stewart–Tolman effect describes how the temperature of a gas in a gravitational field can vary with height. More specifically, it suggests that in a stationary gravitational field, the temperature of a gas decreases as one moves upwards in the gravitational field.
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