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johnmuirsghost t1_it6jd8b wrote

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Edit: this comment is a better answer.

Over hundreds of years, immersion in even weak acid can have an effect. Same as how splashing a bucket of water against a cliff won't do much, but given enough time, waves will scrape it away like butter.

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platitood t1_it89g5e wrote

I have a hypothesis that because so much damage is done to stone by the freeze and thaw cycle of water, that a cliff made of butter would be more durable than a cliff of relatively weak stone. I like to go to the next level and try some experiments, but so far nobody has been willing to underwrite my proposal for $1.7M worth of butter to build my test cliff.

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justforthearticles20 t1_it8eayt wrote

I think the first heatwave would end your experiment, assuming animals had not eaten it.

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