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Every factual sentence on the main page is the wording an independent fact-check approved, and two claims that did not pass are listed here as blocked rather than quietly dropped.

CLAIM IDS STAY ATTACHED

Claim boundaries

CLAIM-0301 and CLAIM-0302
Included. The First Drop mechanism and its experimental conditions, with the boundary beside them.
CLAIM-0303 to CLAIM-0307, CLAIM-0309, CLAIM-0311
Included in the approved wording only. No paraphrase is stronger than the review allowed.
CLAIM-0308
Blocked. The review did not identify one verified general cause for a smell noticed before rain. This site says only that.
CLAIM-0310
Blocked. No universal pavement or concrete mechanism is stated anywhere on this site.

Sources

External links are evidence locators only; this site makes no runtime request to them. Each one says which part of the page it stands behind.

  1. SRC-0401 · PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH Aerosol generation by raindrop impact on soil Joung and Buie, Nature Communications, 2015 STANDS BEHIND: THE SHORT ANSWER AND THE FIRST DROP
  2. SRC-0402 · PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH Bioaerosol generation by raindrops on soil Joung, Ge and Buie, Nature Communications, 2017 STANDS BEHIND: THE FIRST DROP CONDITIONS
  3. SRC-0404 · HISTORICAL RECORD Nature of argillaceous odour Bear and Thomas, Nature, 1964, journal record STANDS BEHIND: TWO WORDS: PETRICHOR
  4. SRC-0405 · INSTITUTIONAL EXPLAINER The smell of rain: how our scientists invented a new word CSIRO STANDS BEHIND: TWO WORDS: PETRICHOR
  5. SRC-0406 · HISTORICAL RECORD Genesis of petrichor Bear and Thomas, 1966 STANDS BEHIND: THE LIMITS WALL: AN ATTRIBUTED ACCOUNT
  6. SRC-0407 · PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH Biosynthesis of the earthy odorant geosmin by a bifunctional Streptomyces coelicolor enzyme Jiang, He and Cane, via PubMed Central STANDS BEHIND: TWO WORDS: GEOSMIN
  7. SRC-0408 · OFFICIAL GUIDANCE Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality: geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol World Health Organization STANDS BEHIND: THE LIMITS WALL: WATER, NOT AIR
  8. SRC-0409 · PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH Relationship between intensity, concentration, and temperature for drinking water odorants Whelton and Dietrich, via PubMed STANDS BEHIND: THE LIMITS WALL: WATER, NOT AIR
  9. SRC-0410 · OFFICIAL GUIDANCE Ground-level ozone basics US Environmental Protection Agency STANDS BEHIND: THE LIMITS WALL: OZONE IS DIFFERENT
  10. SRC-0411 · OFFICIAL GUIDANCE Ozone California Air Resources Board STANDS BEHIND: THE LIMITS WALL: OZONE IS DIFFERENT
  11. SRC-0414 · OFFICIAL GUIDANCE Guidelines for drinking-water quality: fourth edition incorporating the first and second addenda World Health Organization STANDS BEHIND: THE LIMITS WALL: A NARROW SAFETY STATEMENT

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