Volume conservation in cloud droplet coalescence to form a rain droplet (scaling with the cube of the radius ratio).
Assuming the total water volume is conserved when N cloud droplets coalesce into one rain droplet, N * (4/3)*pi*r_cloud^3 = (4/3)*pi*r_rain^3, so N = (r_rain/r_cloud)^3....
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