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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by jamescrowley on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:20PM (#38017801)
It can actually have benefits to the soil as a fertiliser - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011191/
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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by huytersd on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:34PM (#38017995)
Anything bigger than a pebble is going to ruin harvesters and planters.
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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by lucb1e on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:26PM (#38018617)
The person you're replying to posted a link which mentions in the "materials and methods" section that the particles in the study were all smaller than 2mm (and 99.6% smaller than 1mm).

To compare with your pebble, which wikipedia says is

> A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4-64 mm

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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by ksenzee on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:30PM (#38018649)
They’re using rock crushed to ~100 microns.
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