I copied and pasted from your reply.
Either way it's wrong.
But...in the spirit of the post consider this.
E=MC2.
That means mass is very concentrated energy.
Water Ice floats...that means it's not as dense as water.
When energy (heat) is added to ice it's density increases when it melts...
When energy (heat) is added to water it...it becomes water vapor (steam)
Steam is LESS dense than water and air and it...
Er...wait a minute...what's going on here?
I copied from Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-clouds-float-when/
And I disagreed with the entire quoted "explanation". Disagree or wrong - isn't that the same?
my point was:
for these clouds to be present, there must be a complex system of flow and thermal processes changing moisture in the hot rising air to condensate and to ice crystals and circulate and melt into water droplets and then to steam.
Why do I say that?
Do you cook? In some cooking processes, you could see similar flows and heating and cooling processes that create shapes like that.
In any case, the heating and cooling processes in these clouds are turbulent and high energy processes and thunderstorm often result from these processes.