This article does not mention silver oxide, but regardless of what chemicals are used why don’t we attempt to weaken catastrophic storms in any way?
[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/jun/24/thisweekssciencequestions3](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/jun/24/thisweekssciencequestions3)
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We don’t really “get rid of clouds” with silver oxide.
To get rain, you need two things. A lot of moisture in the air ready to condense, and a ‘nucleation point’. That is something for the moisture to condense *on*. Most of the time it is dust up in the atmosphere. That is why raindrops leave little pools of dirt on a car hood. It’s the dust they formed around being left behind when the water dries.
Silver Oxide being dropped into clouds is just giving it nucleation points to form around, allowing people to cause the rain to happen where they want. This can get rid of all the “extra” moisture, but the cloud will likely still be there, unless they use enough silver oxide to grab ALL of the moisture in the cloud and drop it on the fields.
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