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ON page 300 of the second edition of Maxwell's excellent little text-book on the “Theory of heat,” it is stated, as a result of the kinetic theory of gases therein set forth, that “gravity produces no effect in making the bottom of the column” (of gas) “hotter or colder than the top.”
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GUTHRIE, J. Kinetic Theory of Gases. Nature 8, 67 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008067a0
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