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A) Raindrops are not tear-shaped, as most people think. B) Very small raindrops are almost spherical in shape. C) Larger raindrops become flattened at the bottom, like that of a hamburger bun, due to air resistance. D) Large raindrops have a large amount of air resistance, which makes them begin to become unstable.
During shower activity raindrops cover the entire surface, whereas raindrop impressions are generally scattered and few in number. Because the rain is falling "everywhere," raindrop impressions should occur equally on sand-sized material as well as mud, yet in the geologic record these impressions are largely confined to fine-grained rock.
Water drops on a leaf Water drops falling from a tap. A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces.A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop.
As the rain continues to fall, it passes through a layer of subfreezing air just above the surface and cools to a temperature below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F or 273 K). If this layer of subfreezing air is sufficiently deep, the raindrops may have time to freeze into ice pellets (sleet) before reaching the ground
The Drop is a steel sculpture resembling a raindrop designed by the group of German artists known as Inges Idee, located at Bon Voyage Plaza in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The 65-foot (20 m) tall piece is covered with Styrofoam and blue polyurethane .
A disdrometer in place in the Everglades. A disdrometer is an instrument used to measure the drop size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors.Some disdrometers can distinguish between rain, graupel, and hail.
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