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Note on some Hailstones that fell at Liverpool on Sunday, June 2, 1889.

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BEING in the Physical Laboratory at about 3.35 p.m., about which time a violent thunderstorm took place, accompanied by hail and rain, I went outside and picked up what seemed to me a fine specimen of hail. I brought it inside, measured its diameter with a pair of calipers, and found it to be 2.9 centimetres.

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ROBINSON, E. Note on some Hailstones that fell at Liverpool on Sunday, June 2, 1889.. Nature 40, 151–152 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040151d0

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