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What is cloud seeding?

What is cloud seeding? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of firing munitions containing silver iodide at passing clouds to make them more likely to produce rain.
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One factor hampering widespread use of cloud seeding in the South is the high start-up cost.
These proposed interventions range from ocean fertilization to large scale cloud seeding.
By the time The Future of Arid Lands was published, techniques for modifying the weather, like cloud seeding, were just emerging.
Some studies have suggested that cloud seeding actually reduces rainfall, or merely redistributes it.
Cold cloud seeding, also known as glaciogenic seeding, involves firing silver iodide into clouds to trigger the formation of ice crystals.
Upon learning of the hardships faced by residents and farmers due to the lack of water resources they set up a cloud seeding project.

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