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WITH reference to the particularly violent hailstorm which passed over S.E. London on Saturday afternoon, July 24, I observed at Woolwich that the hailstones, apart from being very large, had a common shape and structure which may perhaps be worth recording. All the stones examined were either oval or pear-shaped, but not of uniform size; the broad half consisted of clear ice, while the other half was uniformly opaque or closely stratified with alternate layers of clear and opaque ice.
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ELBORNE, S. Structure of Hailstones. Nature 95, 591 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095591d0
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