chemical weathering: Process by which rocks, soil, and minerals are dissolved or broken down via a range of chemical processes including carbonation, hydrolysis, hydration, and redox reactions.
Salts are natural components of soil, surface, and groundwater. They are ionic mineral compounds, which means they bonded by electrostatic attractions between cations (+ charge) and anions (- charge).
Animals generally get trace metals in their diets or through environmental exposures, while plants take their trace minerals up from soil. If we get too little, we may experience a deficiency ...
Soil contains mineral particles, air, water, living organisms and decaying organic matter. The mineral portion of the soil contains tiny fragments of rock which have been broken down into tiny ...