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The wet adiabatic rate is greater than the dry adiabatic rate.

(a) True

(b) False

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Right choice is (b) False

To elaborate: The value of wet adiabatic rate is 60C per 1000m whereas of dry adiabatic rate is 9.80C per 1000m.

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