How to Use silver iodide in a Sentence

silver iodide

noun
  • There's no plane and no silver iodide flare.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • Using silver iodide might do the trick.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Others wondered about the impacts of silver iodide on the ground below.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The silver iodide will allow water vapor to condense, forming clouds that will draw rain.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Scientists are flying planes into clouds and injecting them with silver iodide to make more rain and snow.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 15 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • When the silver iodide burns, particles go into the atmosphere and their charge attracts water to them.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • To induce rainfall, the furnaces burn chemical fuel to produce smoke laced with silver iodide.
    — Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The crystalline silver iodide particles have a structure similar to ice—and inside a cloud, like attracts like.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
  • To achieve this, the team took a single atomic-thick layer of silver iodide (AgI) sandwiched between two graphene sheets.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Much of the research focused on cloud seeding, in which researchers added agents like silver iodide to clouds to produce precipitation.
    — Kate Carpenter / Made By History, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Mexico is releasing silver iodide into the clouds to stimulate rain.
    — Celina Tebor, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mexico’s project involves spraying silver iodide particles into clouds from planes.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The silver iodide particles attract moisture within the clouds, which then gathers and condenses into ice crystals.
    — Bethany Hubbard, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
  • 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 aircraft have been shooting silver iodide flares into the atmosphere, also in the hope of prompting precipitation.
    — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Cloud seeding involves releasing particles like silver iodide or natural salts into clouds.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Cloud seeding aims to improve a cloud’s ability to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny particles, usually silver iodide.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026

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