Dry wooden stakes, if driven into a small crack in a rock and then soaked,

Dry wooden stakes, if driven into a small crack in a rock and then soaked, can develop enough pressure to split the rock. Such pressure is built up through the phenomenon of

Options

(a) imbibition
(b) turgor pressure
(c) deplasmolysis
(d) osmotic pressure

Correct Answer:

imbibition

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