how much does a cloud weight?
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This question is difficult to answer because is diffuclt to define things precisely. If we consider cumulus clouds we gotta consider they are different sizes and some are broken in more pieaces. But there are many types of clouds , like for example consider the nimbus clouds (storm clouds) that might cover the whole of the sky for an area 100 kilometres \nin any direction.\nTalking about the weight of a cloud is not sure what the meaning is. Are we referring to just the weight of the ice crystals in the cloud, or do we also include the weight of the air contained in the cloud. \nHowever the  avarage weight of a cloud can be determined or more corectly said estimated in 2 ways . \nThe first and easiest is by thinking about the rainfall it might. For example, studies showed that  a volume of 200 000 cubic metres of water would weigh 200 000 tonnes \nproduce.\nThe other way of estimating the weight of the cloud is a bit harder and it considers the water content of the parcel of air it comes from. For example, studies showed that the ice in a lump of cloud that comes from an air parcel about 1 km long by 1 km wide by 200 m thick turns out to weigh 1 600 to 3 200 tonnes.\nIf you have ever looked at satellite photographs of cloud, you will have seen tropical cyclones (hurricanes), where a bank of unbroken cloud stretches for perhaps 300 to 500 km or even 1000 km in all directions from the centre of the storm. If you regard these as single clouds, then they are huge. Wispy, high altitude clouds, on the other hand, can be really very thin and light.
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32 fluid ounces.\n\nThe relationship between fluid ounces and "weight" ounces has to do with water. 16 fluid ounces of water, or 1 pint, weighs 16 "weight" ounces, or 1 pound. The words pound and pint come from the same root because of this. There's a saying that "A pint's a pound, the world around." to help you remember this.\n\nThere are 2 pints in a quart, so thats 2 x 16 fl. oz. or 32 fluid ounces.
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A cloud compsition is primarlly just billions of drops of water or ice.  When such a cloud formation has an influx of water/ice, ie it's mass increases to include more water/ice, light finds it hard to pass through the mass, thus making it darker for us to see.\n\nIn a normal cloud, light can pass through the water/ice within the cloud and we see it as a distorted white/bluish/greyish/greenish hue.  But when the cloud is too thick with water/ice, the light doesn't pass through so easily and we see a darker spectrum.
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When it is very cold clouds do freeze. In fact even on a hot summer’s day the high clouds are normally frozen. \n\nThe reason they don’t; fall down is because ice isn’t any heavier than liquid water. When you freeze the droplets that make up a cloud they don’t gain any weight, they just turn from a liquid to a solid. You can prove this your self by  filling an ice cube tray with water and weighing it. After you freeze it solid you can weigh it again and the weight will be EXACTLY THE SAME.\n\nBecause frozen clouds made of ice are no heavier than clouds made of liquid water there is no reason why they should fall down. \n\nClouds are made of billions of tiny droplets of water. You can see this for yourself if you go outside on a foggy night with a flashlight. Fog is nothing but a cloud that has formed very close to the ground, and the flashlight beam will show that the fog cloud is made up of lots of little drops of water floating in the breeze. \n\nA cloud is kept in the sky because the wind is constantly blowing those tinny water drops upwards and preventing them from falling. When those droplets freeze they are still blown around in the wind like tiny little snowflakes (but they are not snowflakes).
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Clouds are composed of small water droplets and/or ice crystals, depending on temperature. It's H2O in some form. Lower clouds are generally water droplets, while high clouds such as cirrus clouds are made up of ice crystals.
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I have heard this, but only a few ounces at most.\nCan that claim be substantiated?\nOr, in fact, does the soul/spirit not have any weight since it does not have mass?
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the weight will be according 2 density of the material \n\nfor example for water 1  liter wighs 1 kg
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clouds would be very pretty
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How high up is the cloud? What is the level of the ground?\n\nIt'll take less time for a raindrop to hit the top of a mountain than to hit the ocean.
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I think most jockeys are about 113 pounds, because they want to be about 120 pounds holding their saddle.  It's actually a minimum weight; I think if a jockey plus saddle is less than 120, they add weight so each horse will be carrying the same load.
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The density of glass is around 2.3 gm/cc or 0.85 lb/in^3.  To get the  pounds per square foot,  Multiply the thickness in inches by 12.  So a 1/8" thick piece weighs 1.5 pounds per square foot.
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This is a link to some kind of government "Ask a Scientist" forum where a standard drop is identified as about .04ml. Convert to mc/cc.\nhttp://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00578.htm
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From the 1896 edition of the International Cloud Atlas which defined ten types of cloud. The ninth cloud was the cumulo-nimbus rising to a height of 10 km, which is the highest a cloud can be.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides some estimates of air and cloud density and weight. NOAA found that dry air has a density of about 1.007 kilograms/cubic meter (kg/m3), moist air comes in at about 0.627 kg/m3, and the density of the actual cloud droplets is about 0.0005 kg/m3. The density of the cloud is thus about 62 percent of dry air. In the final calculations, the 1 km3 cumulus cloud weighs a whopping 1.4 billion pounds (635 million kilograms)! But the cloud floats because the weight of the same volume of dry air is even more, about 2.2 billion pounds (1 billion kilograms). Still, remember that it is the lesser density of the cloud that allows it to float on the dryer and more-dense air.
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the sun weighs approximatly 2.0 * 10^30 kg\n\nto abisdad2004's answer i believe the site has a typo, they probably meant to the 30th power
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ok, so lets calculate this.  a balloon with a foot diameter has a volume of .7854 cubic feet. .5 cubic feet converts into 14.158423356 liters.  The density of helium is .1785 g/L (grams per liter) and the density of air is usually approximately 1.25 g/L.  The difference between these densities is 1.07g/L.  The formula for density is d=m/V (density equals mass over volume)  so we set d=m/V, 1.07=m/14.158423356.  the 1.07 was the difference in density(how much less dense helium is than air) and the V i said(14.158423356) is how many Liters i said was in .5 cubic feet before.  it has to be in liters since the density measurement i gave you was in grams per liters, so for the formula to work we need to work in liters and receive an answer in grams.  ok, so solving for m in that density formula, we get 15.95g.  so each balloon can hold about 16g.  but i looked up the average weight of a regular party balloon and it's 2g, so each balloon can hold 14 more grams.  converting grams to pounds, 14 grams equals .030864717 pounds.  so each balloon can hold .030864717 pounds.  now if we divide your weight by the amount of weight each balloon can hold, we will get the number of balloons you need to support your weight. 160/.030864717 = 5183.9 so 5,184 balloons. \n\nyou would need 5,184 balloons to equal your weight.  this only makes you weightless, so the force of these balloons would basically perfectly counteract the force of gravity, so you would need to jump to push off and you wouldnt be pulled back down. if you wanted the balloons to actually lift you, you would need more, and depending on how many more, you would have a greater acceleration upward.  this is also assuming that each balloon is perfectly one foot in diameter, so the number of balloons may fluctuate a bit.\n\neven so, might i suggest you use a balloon with a larger diameter?\n\nif you want to find out for sure with specific balloons, you can always get like 50 balloons and some weights.  then you can measure how much weight the 50 balloons hold. then you set up a proportion saying that 50 balloons divided by the weight you measure it can hold(in pounds) equals X balloons divided by 160 lbs. then you can solve more precisely for the specific balloons you have.
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I would guess 120-135 pounds.