Describe Precipitation
Precipitation is also useful to isolate the products of a reaction during workup ideally the product of the reaction is insoluble in the reaction solvent.
Describe precipitation. Precipitation is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth. In meteorology precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity from clouds. Precipitation which is the falling of water back to the ground after condensing in the atmosphere occurs all over earth and in many different forms. Precipitation reactions can be used for making pigments removing salts from water in water treatment and in classical qualitative inorganic analysis.
Updated july 09 2019. Along with evaporation and condensation precipitation is one of the three major parts of the global water cycle. In meteorology an even fancier term that means the same thing is hydrometeor which also includes clouds. A heavy downpour a light drizzle snow.
Precipitation occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes saturated with water vapor so that the water condenses and precipitates. It comes in many forms like rain sleet and snow. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle rain sleet snow ice pellets graupel and hail.