artificial seeding
1artificial rain — artificial rain, a fall of rain induced by seeding clouds with pellets of compressed carbon dioxide or any one of certain other substances designed to encourage precipitation …
2seeding — Synonyms and related words: Dry Ice, artificial nucleation, broadcast, broadcasting, cloud seeder, cloud seeding, dissemination, insemination, planting, rain doctor, rainmaker, rainmaking, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, semination,… …
3artificial rain — rainfall which is created by seeding clouds …
4Cloud seeding — can be done by ground generators, plane, or rocket (not shown). Cloud seeding, a form of intentional weather modification, is the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing substances into the air… …
5cloud seeding — A method of artificial rainmaking by scattering silver iodide or other finely divided particles into clouds to serve as nuclei for raindrops. The atmospheric conditions, in terms of humidity, etc., should be conducive for cloud formation for… …
6cloud seeding — An attempt to control natural phenomena by artificial means, that is, by scattering certain chemical substances in a cloud from an airplane. The purpose is usually to promote rainfall, but, at times, to suppress hail and lightning. 1 Am J2d Adj L …
7wood — wood1 woodless, adj. /wood/, n. 1. the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other… …
8Wood — /wood/, n. 1. Grant, 1892 1942, U.S. painter. 2. Leonard, 1860 1927, U.S. military doctor and political administrator. * * * I Hard, fibrous material formed by the accumulation of secondary xylem produced by the vascular cambium. It is the… …
9Usa Marine Biological Institute — Infobox University name = Usa Marine Biological Institute (Japanese: 高知大学 海洋生物教育研究センター) established = 1953, August 1 type = Public president = Izumi Kinoshita city = Usa state = Kochi country = Japan undergrad = 30 postgrad = 7 PhDs = 3 faculty …
10agricultural technology — Introduction application of techniques to control the growth and harvesting of animal and vegetable products. Soil preparation Mechanical processing of soil so that it is in the proper physical condition for planting is usually… …
