How beautiful and wonderful we feel to see clouds hovering in the sky, especially white and soft just like cotton, but do you know that a single cloud hovering above your head weighs around equal to 100 elephants? Yes, it is absolutely true, so let's talk in-depth on this topic today. Now let's think a little bit about what would be there in these clouds or what combination of specific substances these clouds are made up of. The answer would be, obviously, air and some water droplets that are floating in the sky, but perhaps these droplets in the clouds may also be in the form of small ice crystals.
Actually, clouds are formed when the air becomes very cold, so cold that it cannot hold water vapors, then those vapors turn into small water droplets or ice crystals, leading to the formation of clouds, the important part of Earth's weather. In other words, the sky always remains full of water, but most of the time we cannot see the water as the water droplets are too small to notice. These water droplets have transformed themselves into a gas state, known as water vapor, and when the water vapor rises higher in the sky, the air becomes cooler and water condenses. Consequently, the cold air making the water droplets to stick with the things like ice, sea salt, or dust, forming a cloud. So now if we have to check the weight of these clouds, then we have to check the weight of the water as well as the air, is it right?
Some scientists had measured the density of a cumulus cloud, the density of which they had discovered, is about 0.5 grams of water per cubic meter. The density of all the clouds depends on their type, that is, the clouds which are very large, usually have a "cotton-like" or "fluffy" appearance and if you want to calculate any cloud's density, then these big clouds are the right option to consider as their size and shape would be easy to measure. The same if we talk about small clouds, then they have very low density and on the other hand, there are cumulonimbus clouds, a type of cumulus clouds that are associated with thunderstorms and heavy precipitation, usually are very dense and have a very high density.
If we talk about a cumulus cloud, then it looks very soft and nice in appearance, but this single cloud is much heavier than the several clouds. The researchers calculated this cloud and found its average weight, which is 500,000 kg or 1.1 million pounds, which is equivalent to 100 elephants. So now you can imagine that those are the densest clouds, which bring a lot of or heavy rain, how much will their weight be. But now you must be wondering why they do not fall down despite being so heavy, as it has been stated in science that if anything comes down due to the gravity of the earth, then why not clouds. The reason behind this fact is they are usually formed in the air and spread much more widely and inside it, there are millions of droplets that are so small that the gravitational effect does not affect them even slightly, which causes them to float in the sky freely.
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