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chemtrail

chemtrail

1 9.6
A white line in the sky made of water vapor and ice from a plane
  • noun
  • /ˈkɛmˌtreɪl/
translation icon : estela de condensación
  • Hi, I live in Ore., about 50 miles south of Portland. The chemtrails abruptly stopped about a month ago but started up again with a vengeance today.

So she goes, Nah, man, chemtrails, you know, the trails that planes leave in the sky.

Examples

  • I saw the sky criss-crossed with chemtrails.

  • Sit out for a day and watch the chemtrails being sprayed in the skies.

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  • Also, please note we have chemtrails almost nightly in greater Bangkok, too.

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  • And they say the unusual looking jet trails in the sky are actually chemical-laden "chemtrails".

  • You can watch the planes laying chemtrails bank and go back to cross the trail they've laid.

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  • I was looking at the chemtrails and I noticed about 9 white shuttle-looking aircraft flying on the outskirts of the chemtrails.

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  • Cloud seeding, stratospheric sulfur aerosols, and chemtrails are three very different things.

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  • While walking in the park, I noticed several chemtrails stretching across the blue sky.

  • The scientist explained that chemtrails form when the humidity at high altitudes causes water vapor to crystallize.

  • Many people have taken to social media to share photos of striking chemtrails left by passing jets.

Synonyms

condensation trail
vschemtrail
4.6

A thin white cloud that a plane leaves behind in the sky

is about the composition of water vapor and ice crystals at high altitude

Surface Forms

chemtrail singular
chemtrails plural

Morphology

chemtrail = chemical + trail (opaque) = chem + trail

Although the form suggests 'chemical' + 'trail', the actual referent is a condensation trail (contrail) of water/ice, so the component 'chem' is misleading for meaning.

Etymology

Chemtrail is made from chem- (short for 'chemical') and trail ('line left by a plane'), but the ordinary white line is usually a contrail, meaning a trail of 'water vapor' and ice from a jet, so in this sense chemtrail just refers to the normal plane trail.