How are potholes in the road formed? Seems like there’s nothing then one day 50 potholes overnight.
In: Chemistry
Roads are like petri dishes for nature to do her work on. As road are exposed to rain, snow, and other precipitates, the road erodes as road are nothing but a refined layer of a clump of rocks that is flat ,and as rocks erode when water flows over them *cough* *cough* glaciers, the road suffers from this and a part or clump of rocks go away each time this happens. Also, when we heat up something, it takes up more place or area and when we cool something, it comes together and becomes harder like ice. So, since we have weather and stuff all the time, the rocks that make up the road do exactly this, but since rocks break up when we hit them with something, parts of the road become weak and form a hole like structure. this is a pothole.
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