What do you classify cloud as? Solid, liquid or gas?
2006-12-25 17:45:56 · 16 answers · asked by carbon dioxide 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Clouds are actually a suspension of a liquid (or solid if it's cold enough) in a gas.
2006-12-25 18:05:50 · answer #1 · answered by xtpy792000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cloud is actually water vapor which has risen until it contacts cold dust particles in the atmosphere. The vapor then condenses around the dust particles just like the water vapor from your hot shower condenses on the cold bathroom mirror. Just as the droplets on your mirror will combine and eventually drip down, when the dust/water droplets get heavy enough they will fall as rain. So you could say that a cloud is made up of tiny water droplets. Have you ever run through the fog and noticed the tiny water droplets hitting your face? You just ran through a cloud. I just described a cumulus cloud. If a cloud is high enough in the atmosphere the dust particles (meteorologists call them nuclei) will be surrounded by ice crystals. Interesting fact: Did you ever wonder why they call weathermen meteorologists when thet don't study meteors? Simple. They do study things falling from the sky. Meteors fall from the sky too. Interesting fact number two. A planet which does not have dust or other particulate matter suspended in its atmosphere will not have clouds or rain even if it does have water on its surface.
2006-12-26 02:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by JimWV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clouds are Liquid and can sometimes be Solid if they are high enough in the atmosphere. Clouds are a condensed form of atmospheric moisture consisting of small water droplets or tiny ice crystals. Clouds are the principal visible phenomena of the atmosphere. They represent a transitory but vital step in the water cycle, which includes evaporation of moisture from the surface of the earth, carrying of this moisture into higher levels of the atmosphere, condensation of water vapor into cloud masses, and final return of water to the surface as precipitation.
2006-12-26 01:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by cheasy123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clouds are colloids. Colloids are the intermediate state between solid and liquid. In colloids the particle size is found to be geater than that of solute molecule in true solution (NaCl solution) and smaller than that of suspension (calcium carbonate + water).
In colloid stae there is a dispersion medium (the solvent in which particles are dispersed) and a dispersed phase (the small particle which are dispersed in the solvent).
In cloud the dispersed phase is liquid and the dispersion medium is gas and the colloidal system is Aerosol of liquid.
Fog and insecticide sprays are also include in this category.
2006-12-26 10:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by debdd03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clouds are water.We can find water in three forms: liquid, solid and gas. Water as a gas is called water vapor. Clouds form when water vapor turns back into liquid water droplets.
2006-12-26 01:56:01 · answer #5 · answered by VelvetRose 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gas
2006-12-26 01:53:10 · answer #6 · answered by Rajchem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gas
2006-12-26 01:47:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not a gas...its a water vapor...condensed as a cloud. if it is a gas it would not forming a cloud because the bond of gas particle is weak not like liquid and solid. it just like aerosol, soot or smoke.
2006-12-26 02:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by AbZaJa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals.
It's not a gas!
2006-12-26 01:53:09 · answer #9 · answered by The Doctor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a cloud is water that materialized when water vapor condensed. so it has to be a liquid. sometimes it may be frozen so it may also be a solid. It never is water vapor. water vapor is not visible.
2006-12-26 01:53:23 · answer #10 · answered by Willem V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋