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black rain

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Noun

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black rain (uncountable)

  1. Rain contaminated by fungi spores, soot, or other particulate matter.[1]
  2. Radioactive rain that fell on Hiroshima following the atomic bombing of 1945.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ The New International Encyclopædia, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902, page 81
  2. ^ Ōe, Kenzaburō (1996) Hiroshima Notes, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 192

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