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English
Noun
black rain (uncountable)
- rain contaminated by fungi spores, soot, or other particulate matter
- radioactive rain that fell on Hiroshima following the atomic bombing of 1945
Translations
radioactive rain
- Japanese: 黒い雨 (くろいあめ, kuroi ame)
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References
- ^ The New International Encyclopædia (in English), Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902, page 81
- ^ Ōe, Kenzaburō (1996) Hiroshima Notes (in English, translated from Japanese), Grove Press, →ISBN, page 192
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