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Where in the world is the rain colorful?

Natural common sense tells people that every time it rains, the rain from the sky should be colorless and tasteless. But the rain in some places will be colorful, which is really strange.

1819 August 13, in Leicester, Emho, Massachusetts, an object with a rotten smell fell from the sky, covered with a layer of cloth fluff. Professor Rufus Graves removed the villous layer and found a "rice paste-like substance" underneath. After contact with air, the color of the surface of the substance becomes "blue-gray, much like the color of venous blood". It is said that this object will shine brightly when it falls.

1819165438+10 On February 2nd, there was a red rain in Blanckenburg. Generally speaking, the formation of red rain is because the rain contains a lot of red sand brought by tornadoes. However, the evaporation test of 144 ounces of Blankenberg red rain showed that when the rain was reduced to 4 ounces, no red sand was found. Cobalt chloride was found in further analysis. However, the analysis report failed to explain the reasons for this phenomenon.

On March 1846, an olive powder fell over Shanghai, China. Observing the powder under a microscope, you can first see that there are two hair-like substances in it. Observing under a microscope with higher magnification, we can find that sphagnum is a kind of seaweed. Put them on the fire and you can smell a pungent smell, like burnt hair or skin. It is reported that these landings cover an area of 3,800 square kilometers.

On August 1869 and 1 Sunday, meat and blood fell from the sky in a few minutes, covering 2 acres of land. On that day, the weather was clear and calm, and the fresh meat was in the form of small particles and filaments, about 1 inch to 6 inches long. At the same time, some hair fell off. The reason for this really makes people dare not think. Is there a meat grinder in the sky? An article about this phenomenon in San Francisco Evening News on August 9 1869 also mentioned that blood and meat were also thrown in Santa Clara County two months ago.

On the morning of February 1870, a yellowish object fell from the sky in Genoa, Italy. Professor Boccardo and Professor Castellani of Genoa Institute of Technology analyzed this object and found that it contains 66% sand (mainly silica and some clay), 65,438+05% iron oxide, 9% calcium carbonate, 7% organic matter and the rest water. Organic matter contains spore particles, starch, diatom debris (a kind of algae containing silicon) and some uncertain substances.

1955 On July 22nd, Mr Edward Mü tz was working in the garden of his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Suddenly, a warm red drop of water fell on his arm. Then another drop fell, and after a while, it began to rain red around him. Mr. Edward Muz looked up at the sky when he found a strange cloud spewing out of the clouds. The red rain fell from the clouds and landed on the peach trees in the garden. This strange cloud is in the sky above him. It's not very big, but the color is very strange. Dark green, red and pink are very similar to the color of falling rain.

Curious Mr. Edward Muz stared at the clouds. At this time, his hand, which had just been wet by raindrops, gradually began to feel burnt. Later, Mr. Edward Muz said that he felt that the wound was covered with turpentine. So he ran back to the house, washed his hands carefully with water and soap, and no longer had the heart to see the red rain. This rain is like blood. I feel oily and a little sticky.

The next morning, Mr. Edward Muz found that the peach trees in his garden and the lawn under them were dead, and the peaches hanging on the branches had withered. It seems that this rain is very lethal.

Later, American scientific research institutions sent people to interview Mr. Edward Muz and took samples of peaches and lawns. However, they did not publish the research results. So, we don't know what this colorful rain is about. Some people suspect that the plane is working, but Mr. Edward Muz said that no plane passed through the area when it rained, and NASA also confirmed this statement. Experts believe that this is not the result of waste gas discharged by chemical plants. It seems that the origin of this rain is really strange.