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leaching

Process in which various chemicals in upper layers of soil are dissolved and carried to lower layers and, in some cases, to groundwater.

Subject: 
Environmental Science [1]
Vocabulary: 
Chapter 10 - Geology: Processes, Hazards, and Soils [2]
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