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I THINK the following will be of interest to your readers in connection with the “rain-making” experiments in Texas. On October 1, at 5 p.m., five tons of gunpowder was exploded in a single blast at the Penrhyn slate quarries in order to clear away a very large mass of useless rock. A strong wind had been blowing all day, and the clouds, though heavy, were high; there had been no rain, and not much sunshine, and the temperature was somewhat low.
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PIDGEON, W. “Rain-making.”. Nature 44, 565 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044565c0
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