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  2. Diazomethane - Wikipedia

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    Diazomethane is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH 2 N 2, discovered by German chemist Hans von Pechmann in 1894. It is the simplest diazo compound.In the pure form at room temperature, it is an extremely sensitive explosive yellow gas; thus, it is almost universally used as a solution in diethyl ether.

  3. Weathering - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, chemical and physical weathering often go hand in hand. For example, cracks extended by physical weathering will increase the surface area exposed to chemical action, thus amplifying the rate of disintegration. [6] Frost weathering is the most important form of physical weathering. Next in importance is wedging by plant roots ...

  4. Abrasion (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Abrasion is a process of weathering that occurs when material being transported wears away at a surface over time, commonly occurring with ice and glaciers. The primary process of abrasion is physical weathering. Its the process of friction caused by scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, and rubbing away of materials.

  5. Diazo - Wikipedia

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    Diazo compounds have two main Lewis structures in resonance: R 2 >C − –N + ≡N and R 2 >CH=N + =N −. In organic chemistry, the diazo group is an organic moiety consisting of two linked nitrogen atoms at the terminal position.

  6. CH2N2 - Wikipedia

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    CH 2 N 2 may refer to: . Cyanamide, an organic compound; Diazirine, class of organic molecules with a cyclopropene-like ring, 3H-diazirene; Diazomethane, chemical compound discovered in 1894

  7. Frost weathering - Wikipedia

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    Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice. The term serves as an umbrella term for a variety of processes, such as frost shattering, frost wedging, and cryofracturing.

  8. Haloclasty - Wikipedia

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    Haloclasty (also called salt expanding) is a type of physical weathering caused by the growth and thermal expansion of salt crystals. The process starts when saline water seeps into deep cracks and evaporates depositing salt crystals. When the rocks are then heated, the crystals will expand putting pressure on the surrounding rock which will ...

  9. Space weathering - Wikipedia

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    Space weathering is the type of weathering that occurs to any object exposed to the harsh environment of outer space. Bodies without atmospheres (including the Moon, Mercury, the asteroids, comets, and most of the moons of other planets) take on many weathering processes: collisions of galactic cosmic rays and solar cosmic rays,