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weath·er·ing

(wĕth′ər-ĭng)
n.
Any of the chemical or mechanical processes by which objects exposed to the weather are worn or broken down.
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weathering

(ˈwɛðərɪŋ)
n
(Physical Geography) the mechanical and chemical breakdown of rocks by the action of rain, snow, cold, etc
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weath•er•ing

(ˈwɛð ər ɪŋ)

n.
the process by which various natural agents, as wind and water, act upon exposed rock, causing it to disintegrate to sand and soil.
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weathering

The decay and break up of rocks on the Earth’s surface by natural chemical and mechanical processes.
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Translations

weathering

n (Geol) → Verwitterung f
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weathering

[ˈwɛðərɪŋ] n (of rocks) → degradazione f meteorica
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The team, whose findings were published this week in the journal Proceedings of Royal Society A, considered some of the 'big questions' currently surrounding glaciers and silicon export including the differences in the chemical fingerprint of silicon between glacial and non-glacial rivers, and if weathering processes occurring beneath glaciers are driving these differences.
Tyagi, Major ion chemistry of groundwater in Delhi area: chemical weathering processes and groundwater flow regime, J.Geol.Soci.Ind., 47, 179 (1996).
In addition, the built environment entails specific weathering processes namely salt weathering.
These reactive parts of the grains are progressively excavated by weathering processes and hence disappear with time.
It covers the properties of elements and molecules, the characteristics of chemicals in soils, soil water chemistry, redox reaction, mineralogy and weathering processes, the chemistry of soil clays, the production and chemistry of soil organic matter, adsorption processes, measuring and predicting sorption processes, soil acidity, and salt-affected soils.
To gain a better mechanistic understanding of the underlying weathering processes occurring in these systems, it is useful to consider the information available in the color data, specifically the evolution of the L*, a*, and b* components of the color.
Iron colloids have effective role in transportation and concentration of a group of trace elements, especially transitional trace elements, during weathering processes (Pokrovsky et al., 2006).
This milieu directly informs the colors and composition of her large abstract paintings and the weathering processes she often uses in her work.
More specifically, Friscic specializes in finding simple ways to chemically or mechanically accelerate the otherwise very slow natural weathering processes driven by organisms such as lichen, which employ simple organic molecules such as oxalic acid to extract and separate metals contained in minerals.

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