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Why is the Huang he (Yellow river) called china's sorrow

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The mighty Yellow River has earned the name “China's sorrow” for its tendency to flood, with devastating consequences, over the centuries. The physical properties of fine sediment were poorly understood in river science, in part because few other waterways in the world had as much as the Yellow River.

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