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MECHANICAL WEATHERING

Specialty Definition: MECHANICAL WEATHERING

DomainDefinition

Geological

The mechanical break-up or disintegration of rock into smaller fragments. (references)

Mining

The process of weathering by which frost action, salt-crystal growth, absorption of water, and other physical processes break down a rock to fragments, involving no chemical change. CF:chemical weatheringSyn:disintegration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MECHANICAL WEATHERING

Specialty definitions using "MECHANICAL WEATHERING": cavernous weathering, chemical weatheringsecondary mineral deposit. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MECHANICAL WEATHERING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mechanical weathering

7

chemical mechanical weathering

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MECHANICAL WEATHERING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 43 48 41 4E 49 43 41 4C      57 45 41 54 48 45 52 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000101 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001110 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#87 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 0043 0048 0041 004E 0049 0043 0041 004C      0057 0045 0041 0054 0048 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47393742354843373546257393554423952434841

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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