HardBotany Ecosystem
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The process where water-soluble inorganic nutrients go down into the soil horizon and get precipitated as unavailable salts is:
A
Fragmentation
B
Leaching
C
Catabolism
D
Mineralization
Explanation
Leaching is a passive process where water moves solutes deeper into the soil layers.
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