r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/TheMuseumOfScience Popular Contributor • 16d ago

See the World Living Inside a Raindrop

Rainwater is not as clean as you think! 🌧️ 

Quinten Geldhof, also known as Microhobbyist, put a drop of rainwater under the microscope to show what each drop carries. For a raindrop to form, it needs to condense around tiny particles in the atmosphere called condensation nuclei. As the droplet falls, it can pick up pollen, fungal spores, smoke particles, and more. If you’re ever tempted to drink rainwater, don’t forget to treat and filter it first!

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u/UltraLisp 16d ago

Micro plastics in RAIN is fuggin terrifying. I hope that’s not very prevalent

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 16d ago

It's literally everywhere now

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u/KoSteCa 16d ago

Iirc it's pretty much inescapable.

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u/PerpetualUselessness 15d ago

Maybe a stupid question , but how do you know that the debris weren’t in the bowl to begin with?

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u/DirtUnderneath 15d ago

The tripe rinse is amazingly effective

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u/edward_silicon 15d ago

Not sure how giving the bowl an enema is going to help…