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cloud seeding
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cloud seeding” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.