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cloud seeding

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cloud seeding
n.
A technique of stimulating or enhancing precipitation by distributing dry ice crystals or silver iodide particles over developing storm clouds in a specific area of the atmosphere.
cloud seeding
A method of making a cloud give up its moisture as rain, especially by releasing particles of dry ice or silver iodide into cold clouds. Dry ice freezes water droplets in the cloud, turning them into nuclei for the formation of raindrops. Silver iodide particles are used because they have a crystal structure similar to ice and can also serve as nuclei for raindrop formation.


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Western media have already reported cloud seeding experiments with the use of granulated dry ice and silver iodide.
Geophysical warfare by Frolov, V.S. / Military Thought
Many local and provincial governments have set up "weather modification" bureaus charged with cloud seeding.
Rain theft in China by Dooley, Erin E. / Environmental Health Perspectives
The atmospheric physicist from Tel Aviv University in Israel had been invited to give a series of guest lectures on cloud physics and to meet with meteorological researchers to discuss cloud seeding.
Ill Winds by RALOFF, JANET / Science News
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