if clouds are made of dirt, bacteria, and other stuff...than why do they look white, clean and fluffy?

Answer 1

Clouds are not composed of water vapour, they are composed of minute water droplets and/or ice crystals. Water vapour is the gaseous state of water and is invisible - just as nitrogen and oxygen are invisilble. The water droplets are very small - about a million are required to make a raindrop. Each droplet has a condensation nucleus - a minute particle of dust or salt - but most of it is water.

The water droplets scatter the white light from the sun just as a bowl of sugar or a field of snow does so the cloud appears white even though the individual droplets in it are transparent.

Answer 2

Actually, compared to the air down here on Earth, clouds ARE nice & clean! Clouds are like 99.999% -moisture... -so they ARE pretty clean. AND they have the ABILITY to clean the air- by washing out the polution in the air- by making the rain that cleans it up. So when Nature makes a "shower", you can thank those fluffy white clouds for washing out the gunk that WE put into the air!

Answer 3

becuase when you look at a cloud you see the water vapor, hence if there is any dust, bacteria, ect... you wouldnt to see anything but "white" becuase a cloud is nothing more than water vapor, and to go further there wouldnt be any dust or bacteria in a could becuase it is not a sponge just air and water thats all.

Answer 4

Clouds are only made up of water vapor and dust particles. They have no color. They look white because sunlight is reflected by the water vapor.

Answer 5

because clouds are made up of billions of ice crystals.

Answer 6

Who told you that, clouds are water vapour and ice.

Answer 7

They aren't. They're made of water vapor.

Answer 8

Hmmm, recheck your facts.

Answer 9

ice crystals it's very cold up there