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2. Whitewash - Wikipedia

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   Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH) 2) or chalk (calcium carbonate, CaCO 3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes used.

3. How to Get Paint Out of Clothes and Salvage Your Garments - AOL

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   Use a spoon, butter knife, or even a credit card to gently scrape off as much of the paint as possible. Rinse the stained area with cold running water to flush out more of the paint before ...

4. Precipitation - Wikipedia

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   The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, Rain and snow mixed ("sleet" in Commonwealth usage), snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. Precipitation occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes saturated with water vapor (reaching 100% relative humidity ), so that the water condenses and "precipitates" or falls.

5. What is graupel? How it is different from sleet or hail? - AOL

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   Freezing rain occurs when the wedge of warm air aloft is much thicker, allowing the raindrop to survive until it comes in contact with the cold ground. A coating of ice forms on whatever the ...

6. Radiative cooling - Wikipedia

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   The sheet does not block the cold, but instead reflects heat to the face and radiates the heat of the face that it just absorbed. The same radiative cooling mechanism can cause frost or black ice to form on surfaces exposed to the clear night sky, even when the ambient temperature does not fall below freezing.

7. Coating clothes with this simple material could cool your ...

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   During tests in scorching summer heat, they found it reduced the temperature underneath clothes by up to 8 degrees Fahrenheit compared to the air, and by up to 15 degrees compared to untreated ...

8. Ice pellets - Wikipedia

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   Ice pellets (Canadian English [1]) or sleet (American English) is a form of precipitation consisting of small, hard, translucent balls of ice. Ice pellets are different from graupel ("soft hail"), which is made of frosty white opaque rime, and from a mixture of rain and snow, which is a slushy liquid or semisolid.

9. Classifications of snow - Wikipedia

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   Warm front – Snow may fall as warm air initially over-rides cold in a warm front, circulating around an extratropical cyclone. [ 5 ] Winter storm – May constitute any combination of sleet, snow, ice, and wind that accumulates 18 centimetres (7 in) or more of snow in 12 hours or less; or 23 centimetres (9 in) or more in 24 hours or 1.3 ...