Definition of silver iodide
: a compound AgI that darkens on exposure to light and is used in photography, rainmaking, and medicine
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The South China Morning Post says that 500 test burners have been built in order to send silver iodide particles into the atmosphere over Tibet.
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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.
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Meanwhile, some American resorts are trying to coax more snow out of the clouds by seeding them with plumes of silver iodide.
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Pilots in sturdy airplanes would plunge into the eyewall and seed it with dry ice or silver iodide.
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And after a two-decade federal experiment called Project Stormfury failed to control hurricanes with silver iodide seeding, the idea fell into scientific disfavor, too.
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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.
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Overall, the Popeye crews flew 2,602 sorties and discharged 47,409 rounds of silver iodide.
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Into all this comes cloud-seeding, which involves spraying fine particles of silver iodide and dry ice into a cloud system.
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First Known Use of silver iodide
1878
Medical Dictionary
silver iodide
medical Definition of silver iodide
: a compound AgI that darkens on exposure to light and is used in medicine as a local antiseptic
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