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Table 2 Salt content of rock specimens used in the humidity-change experiment

From: A laboratory experiment on salt weathering by humidity change: salt damage induced by deliquescence and hydration

 

Sodium chloride

Sodium sulfate

Magnesium sulfate

Ubara sandstone

5.3

2.9

6.1

Oya tuff

7.7

4.2

8.6

Aoshima sandstone

0.5

0.2

1.0

  1. The values represent gram weights of salt in a 100 g salt-free rock specimen
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