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What gives clouds their shapes?

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What Is a Cloud?

A cloud is a collection of particles of water. Particles might be droplets of water and that's generally for the lower clouds. There might be ice crystals so solid particles of water when you have enough of those in the air they scatter the light enough for us to see them. Every cloud is unique in its shape but we've learned that their shapes can fall into these groupsThese general groups at its most basic there are three general shapes of cloud.

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