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Is this true how cloud are form?

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According to "THE BINDING FORCES THEORY" . when the sun radiation which is photon heat up the free electrons that are orbiting around the earth, and when the free electrons increase their energy they travel at high speed which penetrate into water molecules, therefore break up water molecules in different parts, and some are formed of cloud others are travel toward into universe space. also when you heat up a metal that had water on the top, the electrons inside release at a high speed which also penetrate into water molecules and create head that make water boiling and evaporate. is this true theory?

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  1. Total muddle.


  2. no, you are far off. Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets or ice crystals. Clouds form as water vapor either condenses or freezes onto minute floating particles such as dust or tiny salt particles from the sea. These cloud droplets and ice crystals are so small (with an average diameter of 0.002 cm / 0.001 in) that they stay suspended in the air. Raindrops, which typically have a million times more water in them, are heavy enough to fall from clouds.

    A system of identifying clouds was proposed by French botanist and zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1802, and a better system was proposed by English naturalist Luke Howard in 1803. With slight modification, Howard’s system is still in use. Howard’s system uses Latin words to describe clouds as they appear to an observer on the ground. High wispy clouds are called cirrus (from the Latin word for curl of hair); sheetlike clouds are called stratus (from the Latin word for layer); billowing, puffy clouds are called cumulus (from the Latin word for heap); and rain-producing clouds are called nimbus (from the Latin word for rain).

    Clouds are divided into four main groups based on their height above the ground: high clouds, middle clouds, low clouds, and clouds with vertical development. High clouds have bases generally above 6000 m (20,000 ft). Because at high altitudes the air is thin and cold, high clouds are thin, and their names often include the prefix cirro (from cirrus). They are almost entirely composed of ice crystals. Middle clouds, which have names with a prefix of alto, (from the Latin word for high) typically have bases between 2000 m and 6000 m (between 6500 ft and 20,000 ft) above the ground. They are usually composed of a mixture of water droplets and ice crystals. Low clouds have bases lying below 2000 m (6500 ft). Low clouds are almost always composed of water droplets. Clouds of vertical development are taller than they are wide. Their bases are below 2000 m (6500 ft) while their tops may extend above the top of the troposphere.

    Meteorologists divide these four main groups of clouds into ten principal cloud types. The high cloud group consists of cirrus clouds, which are thin and wispy; cirrostratus clouds, which are thin and sheetlike; and cirrocumulus clouds, which are small, white, and puffy. The middle cloud group consists of altostratus clouds, which are gray and sheetlike; and altocumulus clouds, which are gray and puffy. Low clouds consist of stratus clouds, which are low, gray, and sheetlike; nimbostratus clouds, which are sheetlike and dark gray from which rain or snow is falling; and stratocumulus clouds, which are dark, low, and lumpy. Clouds of vertical development consist of cumulus clouds, which are small and puffy; and the giant cumulonimbus clouds, which are thunderstorm clouds with a top that may extend more than 15,000 m (50,000 ft) above the ground.

  3. no.

  4. Generally upward motion of moist air is a prerequisite for cloud formation, downward motion dissipates it. Ascending air expands, cools adiabatically and, if sufficiently moist, some of the water vapour condenses to form cloud droplets

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