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The difference between mechanical and chemical weathering ​

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Chemical weathering demands chemical reactions with minerals inside the rock and causes changes in rock composition. Sometimes this process will produce a different kind of product due to the reaction. Mechanical weathering only involves the physical breakage of rocks to smaller pieces of fragments.

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