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Water-soluble inorganic nutrients go down into soil horizon and get precipitated an unavailable salts by the process of
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When water-soluble inorganic nutrients move downward into the soil horizon and precipitate as unavailable salts, the process is called leaching.
Fragmentation and catabolism are other steps of decomposition, but the specific downward movement is leaching.
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