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The Amazon River is the largest river in the world by the volume of water it carries.
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Is it true that the Amazon River is the largest river in the world by the volume of water it carries?
Yes. Multiple reliable evidence items explicitly state that the Amazon River is the largest river in the world by water volume or discharge.
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Wikipedia: Amazon River. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
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Notes that the Amazon River makes the largest contribution of fresh water to the sea.
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Semantic Scholar peS2o: Gas-chromatographic detection of phthalic acid esters.. (n.d.). Semantic Scholar peS2o. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.730313
Refers to the Amazon River as the world's largest river.
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Semantic Scholar peS2o: First Detection of Microcystin-LR in the Amazon River at the Drinking Water Treatment Plant of the Municipality of Macapá, Brazil. (n.d.). Semantic Scholar peS2o. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/11/11/669/pdf
States the Amazon River is by far the world's largest in terms of volume.
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Semantic Scholar peS2o: The Amazon continuum dataset: quantitative metagenomic and metatranscriptomic inventories of the Amazon River plume, June 2010. (n.d.). Semantic Scholar peS2o. https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/2049-2618-2-17
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