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Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary

What is Chemical weathering?

Definition 7.2 High School Earth and Space Sciences · Chapter 7 — Soil, a Slow-Forming Resource

Chemical weathering is the transformation of the minerals of a rock by reactions with water and with the gases it carries, carbon dioxide and oxygen: some minerals dissolve, others are turned into new minerals, stable at the Earth’s surface.

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