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precipitation

[pri-sip-i-tey-shuhn] / prɪˌsɪp ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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Silver ions were effective at cutting the DNA, but they also attached nonspecifically and caused precipitation.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

This should bring a greater chance of rain, showers and thunderstorms, even to southern regions, with precipitation amounts closer to normal.

From BBC Aug. 7, 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

Heat domes are large areas of high pressure, where sinking air suppresses development of precipitation and clouds, allowing heat to build up over days and weeks.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Walled off from wet air by both the Andes and the Humboldt Current, the Peruvian littoral is astonishingly dry: the average annual precipitation is about two inches.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

Smith has a great fondness for these brilliant precipitations.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

Extra-mundane smoke and smoke from cities merge, or both would manifest in black precipitations in rain.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort




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