How to Use silver iodide in a Sentence

silver iodide

noun
  • Pilots in sturdy airplanes would plunge into the eyewall and seed it with dry ice or silver iodide.
    — Sam Kean, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017
  • And in some countries, hail-fighting planes dust clouds with silver iodide, a substance that helps small droplets to freeze, hindering the growth of large hailstones.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2024
  • Cloud-seeding airplanes use flares mounted to the wings and belly of the plane to inject clouds with silver iodide particles.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile, some American resorts are trying to coax more snow out of the clouds by seeding them with plumes of silver iodide.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Two of the best ice nuclei are silver iodide and a protein produced by the bacteria Pseudomonas syringae.
    — Peter Veals, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Others use airplanes to drop flares that generate silver iodide smoke into clouds, or to fly into a storm with flares strapped to their wings.
    — Sophie Quinton, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The silver iodide will allow water vapor to condense, forming clouds that will draw rain.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2018
  • When the silver iodide burns, particles go into the atmosphere and their charge attracts water to them.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Cloud-seeding aircraft release the silver iodide particles through a series of long, narrow tubes or flares mounted on the wings.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The silver iodide condenses the existing moisture in clouds, causing the water molecules to fall as snow or rain.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Aircraft fly through existing clouds and inject the tiny particles, like silver iodide, with the goal of creating more water or ice droplets.
    — Cnn Com Wire Service, Orange County Register, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The silver iodide causes water droplets in the clouds to form ice crystals that become heavier and fall faster, releasing rain and small hailstones — rather than larger stones that could batter crops.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The local government would also attempt to seed clouds, a process that involves shooting silver iodide rods into the sky to kickstart fresh rainfall.
    — Karina Tsui, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • To induce rainfall, the furnaces burn chemical fuel to produce smoke laced with silver iodide.
    — Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Into all this comes cloud-seeding, which involves spraying fine particles of silver iodide and dry ice into a cloud system.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
  • This is a technique that involves aircraft or drones adding an electrical charge or chemicals such as silver iodide to clouds, in order to create rainfall.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Once the chemicals are injected, the air temperature must reach 20 degrees Fahrenheit—then water vapor begins to freeze around the silver iodide, getting big enough to fall to the ground as rain or snow.
    — Eric Niller, WSJ, 23 June 2023
  • The acetone, which is used when releasing silver iodide particles from the ground, converts into water and carbon dioxide, a spokesperson for the agency said.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Some researchers question the safety of the rain system: releasing silver iodide at ground level can potentially cause health issues for workers in the area.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2018
  • That usually means trying to send the silver iodide into wind conditions that will result in snow above 9,000 feet in elevation.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The rocket, carrying a payload of silver iodide rods intended to initiate rainfall, was headed for the clouds above Zigui county in Hubei province.
    — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The aircraft have been shooting silver iodide flares into the atmosphere, also in the hope of prompting precipitation.
    — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • As part of Project Cirrus, military officials decided to drop silver iodide or dry ice into the storm to promote ice crystals and perhaps weaken the storm even further.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The basic materials for seeding have not changed, for the most part, since Schaefer’s time; the generator at Lake Irwin still uses a solution that contains silver iodide.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The silver iodide particles attract moisture within the clouds, which then gathers and condenses into ice crystals.
    — Bethany Hubbard, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
  • Last year, South Korea attempted to artificially make rain to fight air pollution, using an aircraft to fire 24 shots of silver iodide into clouds over the Yellow Sea.
    — Fox News, 5 May 2020
  • But there are questions over whether seeding clouds in one location might take rain away from another location, and the long-term environmental impacts of silver iodide.
    — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • The experiment, which could take place as early as next week, would introduce chemicals like silver iodide into a cloudy sky to create rain and, it’s hoped, wash away the fine particulate matter hovering over one of the world’s largest cities.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Mexico is releasing silver iodide into the clouds to stimulate rain.
    — Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021

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