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If it has a small crack in it then gets water in the crack then the water freezes in the crack then the crack gets bigger and bigger until it completely cracks, or use a sledge hammer.
Drive dry wooden wedges into the cracks and then soak them. As the wood expands it applies immense pressure to the rock and splits it.
Driving wedges into natural cracks does not necessarily give a clean straight split of the rock.
A method of splitting rock straight is to hammer a narrow chisel into the rock, rotating the chisel after every strike, making a line of deep holes. Two long semicircular pieces of metal are then put into each of the the holes and a metal wedge knocked in between them. By knocking the wedges in turn the rock splits along the line of the holes.
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Water expands when it freezes
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Water molecule
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The roots of the tree break into the rock.
Why water inside a rock crevice can split it apart when the temperature drops?
Water expands when it freezes
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the spit aapple rock is spit beacuse a bite of it
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knife
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no
