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What is a contrail?

What is a contrail? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
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The sun was only six degrees high in the south and was shining on the unusually short contrail giving the appearance of a shiny disc.
Commercial airline pilots later reported the contrail over Florida and later over Indiana.
The jets attempted to intercept and identify the source of the contrail, but no visual or confirmed radar contact was made, he added.
If the aircraft was making a contrail, the pilot was to turn back.
The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.
I walked among the fireworks and the celebrating masses on Tahrir Square as F16 fighter jets drew contrail hearts in the sky, and I felt sick.

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