Rainout

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  • Process by which particles in the atmosphere act as centres round which water can form drops which then falls as rain.
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Abstract from DBPedia
    A rainout is the process of precipitation causing the removal of radioactive particles from the atmosphere onto the ground, creating nuclear fallout by rain. The rainclouds of the rainout are often formed by the particles of a nuclear explosion itself and because of this, the decontamination of rainout is more difficult than a "dry" fallout. In atmospheric science, rainout also refers to the removal of soluble species—not necessarily radioactive—from the atmosphere by precipitation.

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rainout)