Which outcome arises when compressive forces exceed stone's limits?

💡 Explanation

Tensile stress initiates crack propagation because intermolecular bonds break locally under pressure, therefore crack propagation occurs rather than flow which requires dislocations, and shear requires stress on a plane.

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