black rain

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English

Noun

black rain (uncountable)

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

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References

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

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