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the difference between a grape and a raisin, dressed up in fancy vocabulary
means The small amount of water or other liquid present in the air, in a surface, or within a substance — enough to feel damp but not enough to be wet.
from From Latin 'mustum,' the fresh unfermented juice pressed from grapes, which gave Latin 'mustus' (fresh, new). This passed into Old French as 'moiste' (damp, fresh) and into English as 'moist,' with 'moisture' following close behind. So the grape-and-raisin joke is no accident: the word was literally born wet, in the juice of crushed grapes.
- hated word
- voted most cringeworthy in English by surveys
- air's secret
- humidity is invisible water hiding in plain sight
- desert deceiver
- morning dew lets plants drink without rain
- corpse clue
- forensics tracks decay by moisture in tissues
- sky reservoir
- the atmosphere holds trillions of tons of it
atacama desert — receives less than 1mm of annual rainfall, one of earth's driest places
amazon rainforest — releases 20 billion tons of water into atmosphere daily through transpiration
dead sea — lowest point on earth at -1,410 feet with 34% salinity due to extreme evaporation