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chemical weathering
noun
, Geology.
- any of the various weathering processes that cause exposed rock to undergo chemical decomposition, changing the chemical and mineralogical composition of the rock:
Oxygen and acids are agents in chemical weathering.
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Origin of chemical weathering1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Runaway chemical weathering is a really provocative hypothesis to explain what happened to Mars’s water.
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