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coronal rain

coronal rain noun: cooled globs of condensed plasma that falls back onto a star's surface, after having been superheated and lofted into the corona.

Noun

coronal rain (countable and uncountable, plural coronal rains)

  1. Cooled globs of condensed plasma that falls back onto a star's surface, after having been superheated and lofted into the corona.

Forms of coronal rain

pluralcoronal rains

Origin of coronal rain

From corona + rain.

Questions about coronal rain

What does coronal rain mean?
Coronal rain means cooled globs of condensed plasma that falls back onto a star's surface, after having been superheated and lofted into the corona.
What part of speech is coronal rain?
Coronal rain is a noun.
What is the plural of coronal rain?
The plural of coronal rain is coronal rains.

Words near coronal rain in the dictionary

  1. coronal holes
  2. coronal mass ejection
  3. coronal mass ejections
  4. coronal plane
  5. coronal planes
  6. coronal rain
  7. coronal rains
  8. coronal suture
  9. coronal sutures
  10. coronaled
  11. coronally

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