precipitation
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Heavy precipitation is also expected to fall in Shanghai and parts of Fujian, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces through Monday afternoon, it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
At greater heights, droplet collisions, precipitation formation, and faster updrafts can reduce the total surface area of droplets, allowing supersaturation to build.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Most are in northern Ontario and Quebec, where it has been hot and dry, as well as the Northwest Territories, which is experiencing a drought and received less than 40% of normal precipitation in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Drought is a lack of precipitation, whereas water scarcity is about a mismatch between water supply and demand - so it is not just about the weather.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Was there so much paper in a school that the molecules eventually clustered and fell like precipitation?
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
It looked at both extreme events and low-onset climate change, including coastal erosion, marine flooding, sea-level rise and extremes, soil and groundwater salinization, inland flooding resulting from heavy precipitations, and permafrost thaw.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023
They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
These snows are, in fact, precipitations of vapor, condensed by the cold, and carried with it successively.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
Between cousins there exist the ties of race, name, and favor—ties thicker than water, and yet not coagulated with the jealous precipitations of brotherhood or the enjoining obligations of the matrimonial yoke.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
In all precipitations the reagent should be added slowly, with constant stirring, and should be hot when circumstances permit.
From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Henry P. Talbot
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