black rain

English

Noun

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
  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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