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Water-soluble inorganic nutrients going down into the soil and precipitating as unavailable salts is:

AHumus loss
BWeathering
CLeaching
DCatabolism
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Leaching
1. All decomposition steps operate together. 2. This step is leaching. 3. Humification builds humus. _Source: syllabus Biology, Chapter 14, Ecosystem._
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