text: The stack effect or chimney effect is the movement of air into and out of buildings through unsealed openings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other containers, resulting from air buoyancy.  Buoyancy occurs due to a difference in indoor-to-outdoor air density resulting from temperature and moisture differences.  The result is either a positive or negative buoyancy force.  The greater the thermal difference and the height of the structure, the greater the buoyancy force, and thus the stack effect.  The stack effect helps drive natural ventilation, air infiltration, and fires (e.g. the Kaprun tunnel fire, King's Cross underground station fire and the Grenfell Tower fire).