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cloud seeding

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cloud seeding

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form of weather modification

Wikidata facts

Instance of
process
Subclass of
Rainmaking
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Commons category
Cloud seeding
product or material produced
rain
inception
1946-11-13
discoverer or inventor
Vincent Schaefer
immediate cause of
nucleation
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Cloud seeding can be done by ground generators or planes This image explaining cloud seeding shows a substance – either silver iodide or dry ice – being dumped onto the cloud, which then becomes a rain shower. The process shown in the upper-right is what is happening in the cloud and the process of condensation upon the introduced material.

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