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State whether the following is true or false.
Above minus forty degrees, freezing in a cloud requires an ice nucleating particle.

  • A.False
  • B.True only at large scales
  • C.False only at small scales
  • D.True

Answer: D

Homogeneous nucleation is negligible at those temperatures, so heterogeneous nucleation is the only available route. The scarcity of such particles is why supercooled clouds are so common. Most cloud droplets never encounter a suitable particle at all.

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