aerosol - the suspension of very fine particles of a solid or droplets of a liquid in a gaseous medium. Fog, smoke, and volcanic dust are naturally occurring examples of aerosols.
Aircraft operating at high altitudes near the tropopause (mainly large jet airliners) emit aerosols and leave contrails, both of which can increase cirrus cloud formation - cloud cover may have increased by up to 0.2% since the birth of aviation.[5] ...
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