Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being precipitated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being precipitated or thrown down, as a substance in solution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See
precipitate , n. (Chem.)
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- adjective Able to form a
precipitate
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Examples
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If you take a look at the paper you will see that they are indeed talking about "precipitable water vapour".
A new unit of humidity? AYDIN 2009
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I don't quite see the conceptual difference, if there is any, between "precipitable water vapour" in the atmosphere (let's say, in millimeters) and absolute humidity, which is the total amount water present in a particular volume of water (grams/cubic meter).
Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009
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I don't quite see the conceptual difference, if there is any, between "precipitable water vapour" in the atmosphere (let's say, in millimeters) and absolute humidity, which is the total amount water present in a particular volume of water (grams/cubic meter).
A new unit of humidity? AYDIN 2009
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If you take a look at the paper you will see that they are indeed talking about "precipitable water vapour".
Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009
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Another sensor aboard the satellite can determine vertical temperature profiles, vertical moisture profiles, total precipitable water, and atmospheric stability.
Remote sensing 2009
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Detailed studies led by internationally acclaimed cloud physicist Daniel Rosenfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed that the minute water vapour droplets that form around some carbon particles are so small as to be almost incapable of being subsequently coalesced into larger precipitable drops.
An important environmental story that is being ignored... GayandRight 2009
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Figure 1: Global distribution of water vapor for January 2003 from the Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere as measured in millimeters of precipitable water.
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Immediately after, we showed directly that the activity in Fraction I was also a protein: it was sensitive to trypsin and precipitable with ammonium sulfate.
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The net effect of the greater near-infrared absorption is to weaken the hydrological cycle by approximately 2% while increasing the amount of precipitable water by the same percentage.
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Figure 2: Global distribution of water vapor for July 2003 from the Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere as measured in millimeters of precipitable water.
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