precipitation
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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
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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
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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.
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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