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Increases.

Like coffee beans, when broken up, more facets, edges, and surface area is exposed, allowing more air, water, etc to come into contact with the rock.

Take an orange, then scribble all over it, covering all the surface.

Now cut it in two. You now have more area to cover. Color it.

Cut each half into half again. even more area has been exposed. color it.

Each time more breaks occur, the surface area keeps increasing.

(Hope the analogy helps...)

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