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Rain Drop Formation

By Janice VanCleave

How do raindrop form? One way that rain drops form is called accretion. This is the process by which cloud droplets (very tiny drops of liquid water forming clouds) combine forming larger drops. This happen when the drops bump into each as well as when they get very near each other. Water molecules have an […]

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