Some of the first experiments in cloud seeding were conducted by Vincent Schaefer and Irving Langmuir during the late 1940s. To seed a cloud, they dropped crushed pellets of ____ from a plane.?
a. ?silver iodide
b. ?silver iodine
c. ?lead iodide
d. ?cupric sulfide
e. ?dry ice
ANSWER: e
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____________________. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).