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A cloud is a collection of water droplets and ice crystals. These droplets form around a cloud condensation nucleus, which could be a speck of dust or salt, Lamers explained.

Then, many water droplets need to come together to become a cloud. Water droplets form when water vapor interacts with tiny solid particles in the atmosphere, like dust, ash or salt from the ocean.

On Earth, clouds are responsible for rain, which is caused when water droplets in the clouds become too heavy, they fall back to the surface as precipitation such as rain or snow.

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals.In a newly published study ...

But the clouds still have a lot of water in them, it’s just in tiny droplets. If this is the case, a hygroscopic material (like regular salt) might be a better option to cloud seed with.

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