Raining of non-water liquid

The vast preponderance of free liquid surface available to evaporation just happens to be water.
If there were oceans of some other liquid then there would be other rain.
The great oceans of liquid Nitrogen have all evaporated and it's not cold enough for it to fall as 'rain'.

Del

Well when a jetliner expels its lavatory wastes.......I suppose that doesn't count....other than that...

Anything about thermodynamic, pressure of liquid, gas ?

Find materials that has the same properties of water.

phoenix911

How about some acid rain

Regards JD.

If there was enough ethanol in the atmosphere, than maybe it would rain ethanol.

But i guess it would oxidize quit quickly. you have to go to Venus or Jupiter (or any other gas planet) to get a different "kind" of rain

<...maybe it would rain ethanol...>

Now there's a thought [hic!]!

Temperature above is lower enough to make many other volatile liquid to get condensed and but other than water they may not from large droplets of the size that causes rain. Smaller droplets float easily as you see mist generated from small water droplets.

Acid rain is simply due to gases getting mixed up with water droplets and other liquid droplets if trapped in water droplets then will also come down along with rain.

Planet earth loses some of its escaped gases and they contain volatile liquid formed gases and also some water. Not all water will come down as rain, and some will escape the earth.

hi wt,

All rain has more than just water in it. Depending on where you are it can have soluble vapors in it, salt, seeds, and also solids such as sand etc.

Not sure where you got the idea 'rain' was water only?

Take care, and no insult intended................

bb

Not sure where you got the idea 'rain' was water only?
I'd guess the idea comes from the fact that it's effectively 'distilled' and one would therefore think it would be pure....of course it has plenty of time to pick up impurities on it's travels.
I s'pose it is relatively pure...if you had the choice of drinking freshly collected rainwater, or water from a pond or river which would you choose?
Del

Hello Del,

Hope you are fine Del? Been a while since we 'spoke'? well I would choose rain water. But the OP's question inferred there was nothing else which rained on earth. Acid rain is pretty nasty stuff and that is just one gas which mixes with water to make the acid...co2 I believe.

bb

The only place you can condense any liquid, (water, ethanol, gasoline, etc.) is where the air is supersaturated with the vapor phase of the liquid. On earth, that typically occurs where warm moist air rises and is cooled below the saturation point (dew point). No other liquids exist in the atosphere at that concentration (yet).

Apparently it rains methane on Titan. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-4TY476M-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7339cbde360cd98de8410659033a93f1