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Water Cycle (Wikipedia)
Encyclopedia Article
The Wikipedia article on the water cycle, consulted for the history of its scientific discovery, including Bernard Palissy's 1580 assertion that rainfall alone sustains rivers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier2
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Water Cycle (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)
This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Physical Processes, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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