Sentences with phrase «iodide particles»

Once those silver iodide particles make their way into a ripe cloud, they collide with drops of supercooled water and form ice; the ice then falls to the ground, melting along the way.

A second innovation deploys synthesizing apatite minerals from silver iodide particles.

Not exact matches

Within these lines, the cloud's water particles were getting bigger as they hit the silver iodide and froze.

Particles like silver iodide can provide a scaffold on which water molecules can align themselves into a crystalline structure or, in other words, freeze.

But Graetzel and his colleagues recently discovered that by substituting ionic liquids — liquids made up of charged particles, imidazolium iodide in this case — they could maintain the efficiency and pose no risk of evaporation.

The particles finally strike a so - called calorimeter, a device made of cesium iodide that measures the energy of the ray captured by the orbiting observatory.

Shortly after this it was discovered that fine particles of pure silver iodide with a crystal structure similar to that of ice were effective for global weather modification.