Air loses moisture as it rises over a mountain for all the following reasons, EXCEPT that
A) as air cools it loses its ability to hold moisture.
B) air has a lower saturation of water vapour at higher altitudes.
C) air that encounters a mountain is too heavy to rise up and over unless it loses excess water vapour.
D) water converts from a gaseous to liquid state.
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