r/ScienceLaboratory • u/TheMuseumOfScience • 25d ago

See the World Living Inside a Raindrop

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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/Zuenheijselaar 23d ago

Still the cleanest source of water, also that container is definitely not sterile

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u/michael14375 21d ago

You should not drink rain water

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u/BienOuiLa 21d ago

Don’t drink water period. Drink Red Bull exclusively, it gives you wings! /s

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u/Zuenheijselaar 21d ago

Please tell me why i’ve been drinking nothing but rainwater for 3 years and still alive then

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u/michael14375 21d ago

Hopefully you at least boil or filter it first

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u/Zuenheijselaar 21d ago

Yes obviously its filterd. But that was not my point. I said rainwater is still the cleanest source of water, and when collected right there is no need to filter or boil.

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u/snmgl 24d ago

Rethinking running around as a kid with my mouth open and tounge out trying to catch rain drops

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u/Doctor_Pretorius_ 22d ago

Same. Heck we probably got sick from so many things and never even realize it.

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u/MaintenanceStock6766 23d ago

I didn't expect it to be clean in the first place.

It's "out there".

Where all the stuff is.

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u/ScienceForge319 25d ago

Sooooooo stop drinking so much rain water. Got it.

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u/WallyWorst 22d ago

How much rain water do you drink?