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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mexico is releasing silver iodide into the clouds to stimulate rain.
  — Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• Scientists discovered way back in the 1940s that injecting silver iodide into certain winter storm clouds appeared to prompt more rainfall, and various states and countries have been doing this for years to increase mountain snowpack.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2021
• In Dubai, scientists are plotting to combat heat waves in several ways: sending aircraft to fire chemicals such as silver iodide into clouds to spur precipitation, and sending drones to zap an electrical charge into the clouds to trigger rain.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 July 2021
• Mexico’s project involves spraying silver iodide particles into clouds from planes.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• For more than 50 years, efforts to try to artificially induce rain have concentrated on 'cloud seeding' — scattering small particles of silver iodide into the air to act as 'condensation nuclei', or centres around which rain droplets can grow.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2010
• For several decades, the U.S. government even ran an experimental program aimed at weakening cyclones by misting them with particles of silver iodide.
  — Madeleine Stone, National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024