And because the raindrop is round, the light is reflected in the shape of a rainbow.
Rainbows happen when light enters a raindrop.
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When a character crossed the stage holding an umbrella, the sound of raindrops had to be heard.
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Impressions made by bubbles, raindrops and other agencies.
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A second example, which corresponds more closely to a typicalraindropat terminal velocity, is illustrated in figure 11.
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We evaluate the above expressions for theraindropexample in figure 11.
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The role of vegetation is in interception of the raindrops so that the kinetic energy is dissipated by the plants rather than imparted to the soil.
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The movements of clock hands and raindrops and electric trains, for example, can be understood in terms of causal relations that have no consciousness or will at all.
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Fallen leaves and other tree parts also provide a soil mulch against splash erosion by falling raindrops.
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Pressing the same key in the same way can, in different modes, produce the sound of a piano, a tuba, araindrop, or any other arbitrary sound.
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Images traditionally generated from reflectivity radar are two-dimensional cross sections that are color-coded to graph the concentration of raindrops at every point in the cross section of the storm.
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Lassie who 'flowed through fences like a piece of black wind' and whom even the most accurateraindropcould hardly hit, is already transformed to a legend.
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But what we contribute is rather like araindropin the desert.
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We welcome that amendment as a fish in a desert welcomes a solitaryraindrop.
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A value is being placed on araindrop.
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The phrase "may do anything" will be as shockingly familiar as the first heavy raindrops from an impending cloudburst.
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They have predicted a new age in which we would know where every sunbeam would alight and where everyraindropwould fall.
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