• Question: @ryan how were clouds made.

    Asked by ls to Claire, Liad, Ryan, Mako on 24 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      When warm air rises, it expands and cools. Cool air can’t hold as much water vapor as warm air, so some of the vapor condenses onto tiny pieces of dust that are floating in the air and forms a tiny droplet around each dust particle. When billions of these droplets come together they become a visible cloud.

      Interstingly you can’t get rain drops from pure water it needs form around said dust!

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