Certain minerals within certain rocks absorb water. As they absorb water the rock expands and become heavy and start disintegrating. What is the name given to this type of chemical weathering
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Weathering and erosion have gradually shaped it into a slender spire. ... Mechanical weathering includes processes that fragment and disintegrate rocks into smaller ... Chemical weathering is the alteration of the rock into new minerals. ... The absorption of water by swelling clays, called smectites, causes rocks to split.
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