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Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in southeast Texas in 2017, dropped about 154 cm of rain over four days, making it the wettest tropical cyclone ever to hit the US. The storm’s rainfall caused ...

A chemistry infographics collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, chemistry educator and author of Compound Interest.

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