It is these crystals, not aerosols, that act as condensation centres for further cloud formation.
These are the tiny airborne particles around which water droplets form, thus catalysing the condensation of clouds.
Warmer seas impart more moisture to the winds blowing across them: more mists, more clouds, more condensation.
But lakes of methane, and an earth-like weather cycle of evaporation, condensation and precipitation, are still possible.
Condensation streams down the side of my glass of iced kalamansi juice as we gaze at the ships on the distant horizon.
Such particles act as nuclei for the condensation of water vapour into the droplets of which clouds are composed.
The crew's activities had to be restricted to reduce the accumulation of condensation.
Excessive moisture trapped by the composite skin, for example, created condensation dubbed "rain on the plane" that Boeing countered with wicking material.
Suzie drew a smiley face in the condensation on the washbasin mirror.
After much talk of cows, we share a bottle of the local weissbier, drops of condensation running down the side of the glass.
Without such particles, clouds would be rare: the air would need to be freakishly saturated with water vapour or strangely cold for condensation to occur.
Any use of a roof would leave the grass highly susceptible to condensation - leaving it as unplayable as if it were left uncovered in the rain.
Water damage to art work can be particularly devastating when water clings to canvases untreated, mold and decay are caused by a wicked cocktail of condensation.
The ions in turn transfer their charges to any water droplets that might be present, causing them to attact aerosols, which makes them more effective centres of condensation.
This is high-tech stuff that involves not just drip irrigation and condensation-trapping greenhouses, but remote sensing by satellites which provide ET readings for areas of 30 by 30 metres.
The Big Bang in which the universe was created was followed by the condensation out of a huge amount of energy of zillions upon zillions of such matter-antimatter pairs.
The consequent condensation of the water vapour it is carrying heats the air further (the change of state from gas to liquid sheds latent heat), causing it to continue rising.
Impact craters surrounding the cap appear to be filled with ice and dust that was either deposited by wind or condensation, or perhaps further remains from an earlier larger ice cap.
The process of marrying the screen to the tablet using different forms of chemical bonds prevents condensation, delivers cleaner text, improves contrast, and reduces glare and light reflectivity making the tablet easier to read outdoors.
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All Archimede houses have an underfloor cavity that is always pressurized with warm air, and a series of tiny holes punched next to the outside wall encourages a slow diffusion of warmer air that prevents condensation and fungus development.
When building on permafrost in northern Quebec, non-profit group Archimede Systems had to take into account the melt-and-freeze cycles of the seasons, the need to insulate heat, prevent condensation, and the necessity to keep the home from melting into the icy ground during a thaw.
While that argument makes the alarmist blogs and MSNBC, it neglects that, everything else being equal, if hurricanes are becoming rainier, they must be getting stronger, as the fuel that drives the kinetic whirl of the tropical cyclone is the heat released by the condensation of water.
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