What is a cloud? Detailed answer

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What is a cloud?

This chapter is about how clouds form. Warm air filled with moisture rises into the sky. When it reaches a certain height, it cools down. At a lower temperature, it can no longer contain all of the moisture in the form of water vapor. Therefore, excess moisture is converted into small droplets of water, ice crystals, which make up a cloud or a cloud. There are no two exactly alike clouds, especially since they are constantly changing their shape.

Clouds have different shapes because they form at different heights and at different temperatures. After the water vapor turns into a liquid (this process is called condensation), it comes into contact with dust and other air particles. The smallest drop of water forms around each such tiny particle, which is brought by the wind from deserts, dry highlands and volcanoes. These are small crystals of salt from the oceans, tiny pieces of ash from burnt coal and much more.

It takes about 100 tiny droplets to form one raindrop. And to form a cloud, you need millions and millions of these droplets. Such a cloud measuring a kilometer wide, a kilometer long and a kilometer high could contain about 000 tons of water in the form of droplets and almost 000 tons of water in the form of vapor.

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