Definition of weathering
: the action of the weather conditions in altering the color, texture, composition, or form of exposed objects; specifically : the physical disintegration and chemical decomposition of earth materials at or near the earth's surface
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Chips of paint—likely contaminated with all different sources of carbon due to centuries and sometimes millennia of weathering—are first removed from the delicate pieces of art.
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The harder sandstone ridges withstood the weathering of wind and water better than the softer intervening layers.
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First Known Use of weathering
1548
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