How Does Salting Clouds Cause Rain?
In: Earth Science
Most raindrops form around a tiny particle of dust, which they call a nucleus. The particle bumps into a couple microscopic water droplets, they glom together, the large mass bumps into more water droplets, and the process continues until we’ve built up a full-size drop.
Salting or seeding a cloud is just adding in particles to encourage the process, so it rains where/when we want it to rain.
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