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Weathering rates of silicate minerals observed in the laboratory are in general up to five orders of magnitude higher than those inferred from field studies. The differences between experimental conditions in the laboratory and natural conditions in the field have been thoroughly discussed in previous studies, however, the discrepancy was never fully resolved. It has been shown in past work that if...