how can you considered clouds is gas?
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You can see clouds because clouds aren't gases.  They're condensed water droplets and ice crystals that aren't big enough to fall to the ground.  If clouds were actually made of water vapor, you couldn't see them.  Steam isn't completely gaseous, which is why you can still see it.  Smoke is visible because it's not a gas either, it's a colloid; it's a solution of solid particles in air.
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it should be plasma\nif u mean ice>water>water vapor>plasma\n\nu see,when a solid is heated to a certain extent it melts into liquid,and further heated it becomes a vapour,when it is heated to a greater extent,the molecules break up into atoms and atoms into very minute states.these form a cloud of particles which is called plasma.\nfor ex.,the temp. of stars is upto millions of degrees hence the plasma is present and also known as fourth state of matter.
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Carbon at room temperature and pressure is a solid, not a gas. If you raised its temperature enough to make it a gas, it would become highly reactive and would be too hot for you to breathe.
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you are joking aren't you? this is what i tell my 4 year old grandson when he is frightened,but doesnt involve two clouds bumping into each other,clouds are just water vapour,like steam coming out of a kettle when it is boiling.
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Believe it or not clouds can weigh 5M, even 10 million pounds, or more.   Their weight is determined by the density of the moisture in them and of course their size.
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Solid, Liquid, gas.... plasma is sometimes considered a state
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There are multiple types of clouds because not all clouds are made the same way. The weather and climate is different everywhere at different times of day and seasons, so the way the clouds are being made can be different, too.\n\nClouds are divided into two general categories: layered and convective. These are named stratus clouds and cumulus clouds. These two cloud types are divided into four more groups that distinguish the cloud's altitude. Clouds are classified by the cloud base height not the cloud top.\n\nClick on the link below for more information! Hope this helps.
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wikipedia.com\n\n\nA cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology that studies clouds is nephology.\n\nOn Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water (typically 0.01 mm of ice crystals) that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds. Clouds reflect all visible wavelengths of light equally and are usually white, but they can appear grey or even black if they are so thick or dense that sunlight cannot pass through.\nContents\n[hide]\n\n    * 1 Cloud formation and properties\n          o 1.1 "Hot Ice" and "Ice Memory" in cloud formation\n    * 2 Cloud classification\n          o 2.1 High clouds (Family A)\n          o 2.2 Middle clouds (Family B)\n          o 2.3 Low clouds (Family C)\n          o 2.4 Vertical clouds (Family D)\n          o 2.5 Other clouds\n          o 2.6 Cloud fields\n    * 3 Colors of clouds\n    * 4 Global dimming\n    * 5 Global brightening\n    * 6 Clouds on other planets\n    * 7 See also\n    * 8 External links\n\n[edit]\n\nCloud formation and properties\nA variety of cloud formations.\nEnlarge\nA variety of cloud formations.\nGlobal scheme of cloud optical thickness.\nEnlarge\nGlobal scheme of cloud optical thickness.\n\nClouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways.\n\n1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising). This can happen\n\n    * along warm and cold fronts (frontal lift),\n    * where air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift),\n    * by the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating),\n    * when warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water.\n\n2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails, and Arctic sea smoke.\n\n3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation.\n\nThe water in a typical cloud can have a mass of up to several million tonnes. However the volume of a cloud is correspondingly high, and the net density of the relatively warm air holding the droplets is low enough that air currents below and within the cloud are capable of keep it suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are constantly forming and re-evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 m and a terminal velocity of about 1-2 cm/s. This give these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into in the warmer air beneath the cloud.\nCumulonimbus cloud\nEnlarge\nCumulonimbus cloud\n\nMost water droplets are formed when water vapor condenses around a condensation nucleus, a tiny particle of smoke, dust, ash, or salt. In supersaturated conditions, water droplets may act as condensation nuclei.\n\nWater droplets large enough to fall to the ground are produced in two ways. The most important is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals, which precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place in clouds with tops cooler than -15°C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of rising and falling water droplets produces larger and larger droplets, which are eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet f
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How very astute.  Fluids form mixtures and circulate based on different things, like pressure and heat.\n\nBut the gases do form layers.  Who said they don't?
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A cloud is a visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
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Solids, liquids, and gases refer to the individual properties of matter.  Air pollution is a mix of liquids solids and gases depending on what the pollution is.  Smoke for instance is just micro-solid particles in the air.  Hydrogen sulfide for example would be a gas.
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a lot!\nwater is really dense, and clouds are composed of water vapor-imagine a steam room, with about 1.5 times more water per unit of volume, then imagine al the water in there times, 10000(at least the size of a big cloud), even if the air weighed 1/100th of a pound, that could would with 10 lbs
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The first point you need to realise is that clouds are NOT water vapour. They are liquid water. It wouldn't matter how large clouds were or how many there were they wouldn't have any effect on the amount of water vapur in the atmopshre.
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not sure, i think its some kind of gas?
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Clouds aren't just random droplets of water. What they are is tiny droplets of water that have condensed from water vapor in areas where the conditions (temperature, air pressure and humidity) are exactly right. Anywhere where you have the correct combination of these conditions, you'll get a cloud. Anywhere that you don't, you don't.\n\nAreas with this kind of conditions don't occur in random tiny places. Instead, there will be a large area of one condition that gradually shifts into another. (If this doesn't make sense, think of just temperature. You don't get a different temperature at every spot on the globe. Instead, you get a large area of warm air that gradually shifts into a large area of cooler air. The same is true for air pressure and humidity.) This is why you get a large area of 'cloud' in one place and nothing at all in another. You can think of clouds as being physical maps of the weather conditions in the sky.\n\nThis is also what holds the clouds up. In general, if a cloud is high up in the sky, the conditions just below it aren't right for the cloud to form. As the water droplets fall, they reach areas with the wrong temperature or pressure and evaporate again. Only if the clouds become densely packed enough for the water to form large enough droplets can the droplets fall to the ground. Not all clouds form high up, either... sometimes the right conditions can occur at groundlevel, giving us fog.
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Clouds are characterized by their height.  Low, medium, high, and extensive vertical development.  Then they are given prefixes and suffixes such as "nimbus" for rain clouds, and "alto" for low clouds, just to name a couple.  There are two main types of clouds: Cumulus (which are the puffy white ones)are associated with an unstable atmosphere, good visibility, and intermitten precipitation. Stratus (which are long and skinny) on the other hand are associated with a stable atmosphere, poor visibility, and steady precipitation.
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I have gas - does that count?