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This article aims to demonstrate that the mechanisms governing the natural alteration of rock also lead to the development of alkali-aggregate reaction. We have used the alteration of granite to pinpoint two processes that are often involved. In the first, existing minerals are transformed into minerals with expansive properties (such as the transformation of biotite into chlorite and expansive smectite)...