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Understand the process and the factors involved in cloud formation

What is cloud seeding and can it be used to fight climate change?

Figure 3: The two general cooling paths by which a group of atoms can condense. Route 1 is the path to the crystalline state; route 2 is the rapid-quench path to the amorphous solid state.

Learn how the Sun warms moist air near the ground and causes it to rise and condense on dust particles

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Figure 3: The two general cooling paths by which a group of atoms can condense. Route 1 is the path to the crystalline state; route 2 is the rapid-quench path to the amorphous solid state.

Understand the process and the factors involved in cloud formation

What is cloud seeding and can it be used to fight climate change?

Learn how the Sun warms moist air near the ground and causes it to rise and condense on dust particles

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distillation water cycle melting condensation nucleus freezing nucleus sublimation nucleus heat transfer phase change vaporization evaporation sublimation latent heat phase diagram phase rule thermal conduction convection

Key People

Carl von Linde

Carl von Linde

German engineer

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

British physicist and chemist

Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Dutch physicist

Osborne Reynolds

British engineer and physicist

Louis-Paul Cailletet

French physicist

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Water and its Varying Forms