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Grinding or powdering an object increases the surface volume available for chemical interaction. More the reagent is individualized more effecient is the reaction with it's environment.

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What are the two causes of weathering?

The two main causes of weathering are physical weathering, which includes processes like freezing and thawing or abrasion, and chemical weathering, which involves the decomposition of rocks due to chemical reactions with water, oxygen, or acids.


How are physical and chemical weathering different?

Physical weathering is when some liquid like wind or water over a long period of time breaks of the outer layers of and object, like a rock. Chemical weathering is when an acid or something else chemically eats away at an object like a rock, happening at a much faster rate. Physically weathering - water eroding a rock Chemical weathering - coca cola acids eating away at the rust of a nail. Hopefully this helped


Compare and contrast mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?

Mechanical weathering provides fresh surfaces for attack by chemical processes, and chemical weathering weakens the rock so that it is more susceptible to mechanical weathering.


Is weathering deconstructive or a constructive force?

Deconstructive.Why? Because it breaks down rocks on Earth's surface. That action would be considered deconstructive because the breaking down of any object is destruction.


Are weathering and erosion the same process?

Both chemical and mechanical weathering breakdown a rock into particles, just in diffrent ways. Mechanical weathering is the physical weathering in which a rock is broken down into particles. Chemical weathering is the weathering in which rocks are disolved, decomposed , or loosend to change the minerals in the rock.

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How the rates of mechanical and chemical weathering might differ in the Congolese rain forest and the Siberian steppes?

The rates of mechanical weathering does not affect anything since the chemical properties remain unchanged. Only chemical weathering affects the chemical properties of an object.


What are the causes of the weathering?

the answers are chemical and natural use the word itself "weather"ing rain erodes the object that is weathering and for chemical acid rain.


How the rates of mechanical and chemical weathering might different in the Congolese rain forest and the Siberian steppes?

In the Congolese rainforest, the rates of chemical weathering are likely higher due to the warm and wet climate, which accelerates chemical reactions that break down rocks. In contrast, in the Siberian steppes, mechanical weathering rates might be higher due to freezing and thawing cycles that physically break down rocks through processes like frost wedging.


What are the two causes of weathering?

The two main causes of weathering are physical weathering, which includes processes like freezing and thawing or abrasion, and chemical weathering, which involves the decomposition of rocks due to chemical reactions with water, oxygen, or acids.


What is wear on a part?

It depends on what specific part. Or what object is wearing but generally it is called weathering or erosion. Weathering can be either chemical or natural. ;)


How are physical and chemical weathering different?

Physical weathering is when some liquid like wind or water over a long period of time breaks of the outer layers of and object, like a rock. Chemical weathering is when an acid or something else chemically eats away at an object like a rock, happening at a much faster rate. Physically weathering - water eroding a rock Chemical weathering - coca cola acids eating away at the rust of a nail. Hopefully this helped


What chemical and physical weathering do you observe in your home and campus Describewhat happens to the object?

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Compare and contrast mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?

Mechanical weathering provides fresh surfaces for attack by chemical processes, and chemical weathering weakens the rock so that it is more susceptible to mechanical weathering.


How does weathering and erosion work?

Weathering wears away at the surface of rocks and objects with chemical, which is plants, rooting into hard soil and breaking it apart, and physical, which happens with the rain, wind and snow or ice by filling small cracks in rocks, freezing then melting expanding and breaking apart the rock. All over time breaking apart the surface. And erosion takes the contents weathered off and degrades other object with moving water, and rocks that rub against eachother, waching away the weathering and erosion.


Is a glass breaking a chemical change?

A chemical change is when the molecules of an object / solution are changed. A physical change is when the object / solution is altered without molecular change. Breaking glass is a physical change.


What factors affect how much chemical energy an object has?

The amount of chemical energy an object has is influenced by the types and quantities of chemical bonds present in the object's molecules. The specific compounds and elements in the object determine the potential energy stored in those bonds. The temperatures and pressure conditions also affect the amount of chemical energy present by influencing the stability and reactivity of the molecules.


Is weathering deconstructive or a constructive force?

Deconstructive.Why? Because it breaks down rocks on Earth's surface. That action would be considered deconstructive because the breaking down of any object is destruction.