silver iodide

noun, Chemistry

a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.

Origin

1905-10

Examples from the web for silver iodide

Desperate people have tried everything from firing cannons into the sky to lacing clouds with silver iodide.
The projects use silver iodide as the active cloud-seeding agent, supplemented by dry ice if aerial seeding is done.
In one process, silver iodide is precipitated by the addition of a silver nitrate solution.
The projects generally use silver iodide as the active seeding agent, supplemented by dry ice if aerial seeding is done.
The government also launched thousands of shells containing silver iodide pellets in order to induce precipitation.
silver iodide is used in seeding clouds to produce rain.
The winter storm systems in these areas are being seeded with ground-based generators using silver iodide.
As part of the rainfall enhancement program, aircraft seeding operations dispensed silver iodide.

British Dictionary definitions for silver iodide

silver iodide

noun

a yellow insoluble powder that darkens on exposure to light: used in photography and artificial rainmaking. Formula: AgI

silver iodide in Medicine

silver iodide n.
A pale yellow, odorless, tasteless powder that darkens when exposed to light and that is used as an antiseptic.

silver iodide in Science

silver iodide
A pale-yellow, odorless powder that darkens when it is exposed to light. It is used in photography, as an antiseptic in medicine, and in cloud seeding. Chemical formula: AgI.