chemical weathering
The weathering process where water freezes and thaws in cracks in rocks is called frost wedging. This repeated process of expansion and contraction due to freezing and thawing can cause the rock to break apart over time.
Another name for freezing point is melting pointsince the temperature at which a substance freezes is also the temperature at which it melts, going in the other direction.Freezing point could also be referred to as congelation point.
Freezing or solidification. Water goes from a liquid to a solid (crystalline) state.
Melting. The ice molecules start to move more than in its solid state. This is also the melting/freezing point (0 degrees Celsius).
The slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces is called weathering. This can happen through various mechanisms like physical weathering (e.g. freezing and thawing, root wedging) or chemical weathering (e.g. oxidation, hydrolysis).
a liquid to a solid is called the melting point:-)
This is called the melting (or freezing) point
The melting point is also called the liquefaction point or the fusion point.
Solidification and liquidisation
Melting and freezing are the correct terms for this phase change.
Simple: a transformation from a solid to a liquid.
It is called melting when a solid turns into a liquid
When water freezes in cracks, it expands and can cause the crack to widen, leading to a process known as freeze-thaw weathering. This process is a form of mechanical weathering, where the repeated freezing and thawing of water weakens the rock and causes it to break apart.
The weathering process where water freezes and thaws in cracks in rocks is called frost wedging. This repeated process of expansion and contraction due to freezing and thawing can cause the rock to break apart over time.
change of state
When a solid is heated and changes to a liquid, the phase change is called melting.
FREEZING. From Solid to Liquid is it MELTING.