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No! Your guess is wrong! rain Drops aren't tear shaped, they are spherical. 10 graders may sometimes get through this confusion when they come across Oil drop experiment to find the charge of an electron. Where Oil drops are regarded as a sphere. Of course there is no doubt that they are spheres.

May be that's why ball-bearing and lead shots are round too. They exploit the same property of falling liquids in their manufacturing process. In their manufacture molten lead is dropped through a sieve from a great height into a cooling liquid and becomes spherical.

Shot-drop towers used to be built for this purpose until the festival of Britain in 1951 there was one next to waterloo Bridge in London. At just over 71m (234 feet) Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore was the tallest building in America until the Washingtoon Monument surpassed it after the Civil War.