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Organic molecules help fatten cloud-making water droplets

Better size estimates could help improve climate forecasts

Clouds

IN THE CLOUDS  Many of the water droplets that make up clouds get a size boost from carbon-containing molecules that assemble on the droplets’ exterior, new research suggests.

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By Thomas Sumner

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