The word 'raindrops' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the individual drops of water that fall from the sky during rainfall. Example sentence: The sun was hidden behind thick clouds, and I could feel raindrops slowly beginning to fall.
It gets millions of viewers, but people don't come up to me on the street and say, 'Excuse me, I saw you in Mr Whicher last night.' I get to walk between the raindrops still".
The International Energy Agency forecasts that by 2025 China will overtake America as the world's largest oil-and-gas importer.In this section Not exactly eye to eye Walking between the raindrops Hitting where it hurts Restoration drama You couldn't make it up First Facebook, then the world Picking up the pieces ReprintsBut China's interests in the region are not limited to energy.
It uses the microwaves emitted naturally by raindrops (their so-called black-body radiation, a function of their temperature) to assess the quantity of water falling from a storm's clouds.
These crystals form, in effect, the seeds for new raindrops: hence the term "seeding .A different drop-forming process is thought to take place in warm clouds.
Even with no raindrops around to bounce radar pulses off, CAT can still be detected using a light-based radar or "lidar", which measures how light from a laser beam is scattered by tiny airborne particles called aerosols.
But they may be disappointed.In this section Tequila sunset It came from outer space Counting raindrops Till death do us part ReprintsAt the moment, the waters around the Arctic account for a fifth of the world's catch.
Inside, the odd raindrop finds its way through the corrugated roof, and Cunha tilts the lid of the association's prized MacBook, kept under lock and key, to protect it from the drops.
But as far as anyone can tell, cloud seeding works by meddling with two of these processes in particular.In cold clouds, ice crystals in the cloud-tops are thought to form the nuclei of each raindrop.
Now the companies and bankers that have managed to survive a brutal year are once again seeking capital, through listings on bourses in the mainland and beyond.The first raindrop in China has been Guilin Sanjin, a manufacturer of Chinese medicine, which is expected to issue shares on June 29th on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the market for the country's smaller companies.
CHOOSING the bleakest statistic from a report issued by Kevyn Orr, Detroit's emergency manager, on his city's financial health is like choosing the wettest raindrop in a monsoon.
Such a raindrop (perhaps about 1 mm [0.04 inch] in radius) contains perhaps one million 10-micrometre cloud droplets.
