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Talk:Rain

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: Having fun is one thing. If there is hope that this is to be a serious resource for students that is another. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 17:34, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
: I hope I need not remind you about the ''chilling effect'' of having serious works about physical sciences be ridiculed. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 17:42, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
 
:Is this type of nonsense standard for Conservapedia? I came here to help - but I don't want to waste my time. --[[User:Rustyjd07|Rustyjd07]] 17:36, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
 
 
 
==Droplet formation==
 
:Rain is formed when [[water vapor]] condenses within [[cloud]]s on minute particles of [[dust]] or [[sea salt]].
 
If we need a citation so soon, let's wait a few minutes before saying it. There are harpies everywhere. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 17:35, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
 
: its a reminder that I (or someone else willing to do the research) need to go back and properly cite these facts. It isn't a controversial issue (one would hope), but rather "this is a fact, it needs a citation." --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 17:40, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
 
:I believe it's a bit more complicated than that. Yes water vapor condenses in clouds but an intermediate step is that the water vapor turns into a crystal (ice) and collects more water which also turns to ice. Only after the updrafts that cause the water vapor to condense (at altitude) cf [[Boyles laws]] of gases where decreased pressure proportionally decreases temperature thus forming the initial ice crystals...this "hail" falls through the troposphere where it melts into a raindrop, (usually). I don't have cites for this but only as a hobby (weather). [[User:Rob Pommer| Cracker]]<sub>[[User_talk:Rob_Pommer|talk]]</sub> 17:57, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
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