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  2. Vermicompost - Wikipedia

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    The fraction of soil which has gone through the digestive tract of earthworms is called the drilosphere. [10] Vermicomposting is a common practice in permaculture. [11] [12] Vermiwash can also be obtained from the liquid potion of vermicompost. Vermiwash is found to contain enzyme cocktail of proteases, amylases, urease and phosphatase.

  3. Rhizolith - Wikipedia

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    Rhizoliths vary in length from a few centimeters to several meters, while burrows are generally less than a meter long. However, animal burrows up to 9 metres (30 ft) have been found. The diameters of rhizoliths range from 0.1–20 millimetres (0.0039–0.7874 in), while the longest reported animal burrow had a width of 0.5 centimetres (0.20 in).

  4. Silo - Wikipedia

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    They can be made of many materials. Wood staves, concrete staves, cast concrete, and steel panels have all been used, and have varying cost, durability, and airtightness tradeoffs. Silos storing grain, cement and woodchips are typically unloaded with air slides or augers. Silos can be unloaded into rail cars, trucks or conveyors.

  5. Compost - Wikipedia

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    Human composting (also known as soil transformation [49]) is a process for the final disposition of human remains in which microbes convert a deceased body into compost. It is also called natural organic reduction (NOR) or terramation. [50]

  6. Food storage - Wikipedia

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    A food storage calculator can be used to help determine how much of these staple foods a person would need to store in order to sustain life for one full year. In addition to storing the basic food items many people choose to supplement their food storage with frozen or preserved garden-grown fruits and vegetables and freeze-dried or canned ...

  7. Tuber - Wikipedia

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    A root tuber, tuberous root or storage root is a modified lateral root, enlarged to function as a storage organ. The enlarged area of the tuber can be produced at the end or middle of a root or involve the entire root. It is thus different in origin, but similar in function and appearance, to a stem tuber.

  8. Soil - Wikipedia

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    Soil texture is determined by the relative proportion of the three kinds of soil mineral particles, called soil separates: sand, silt, and clay. At the next larger scale, soil structures called peds or more commonly soil aggregates are created from the soil separates when iron oxides , carbonates , clay, silica and humus , coat particles and ...

  9. Phytolith - Wikipedia

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    Soluble silica, also called monosilicic or orthosilicic acid with a chemical formula of (Si(OH)4), is taken up from the soil when plant roots absorb groundwater. From there, it is carried to other plant organs by the xylem. By an unknown mechanism, which appears to be linked to genetics and metabolism, some of the silica is then laid down in ...