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Grady Grumbles is not the kind of person you'd want to invite to your...

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party. The guy has a permanent raincloud over his head. It follows...

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him everywhere. No, seriously. He'd even get the snack station all wet.

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For a long time, it was just the grey cloud that hovered over Grady.

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But then one day it began to rain. Not a welcome development. Grady...

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did a little research and learned that the process his little cloud was undergoing was...

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called condensation. Basically, the water vapor molecules had started...

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to slow down and lose energy, and with everything slowed down, hydrogen...

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bonds had begun to form, resulting in liquid water.

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A little H2 to go with his O. Yeah, it got even worse once...

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winter arrived. Then all the rain continually pouring down on Grady's face...

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began to freeze. Suddenly he was covered in ice, which is of course...

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water's solid form. Because heat was removed from...

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the equation, the kinetic energy of the water particles had plummeted,

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and now the particles were held in place by all those newly formed hydrogen...

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bonds. Well Grady was pretty sure this was just gonna be his life.

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And he was gonna have to find a way to live with it. Until one day, he wandered...

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near a heat lamp. With heat being reintroduced, kinetic...

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energy was increased, and it got those water particles moving...

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again. The ice was melted, and the particles were now bouncing around...

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quickly enough that they returned to their liquid state, and Grady was back to...

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having a raincloud. But now that he'd made some progress, Grady was intent...

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on learning more. Oh, that Grady. So he kept reading and discovered that...

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if he were to warm himself up even more, he might initiate...

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the process of vaporization, which would dry up...

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all the rain. So, you know, the itsy bitsy spider could come out again...

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or something like that. Grady cranked up his thermostat, and locked...

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himself in his room. Before long, the water molecules started to go nuts.

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Hydrogen bonds were broken, and the rains started to vaporize.

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The cloud over Grady's head swelled a bit, but at least he...

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was now dry. He could learn to live with the cloud, even if it would...

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be awkward on dates.

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