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types of soil

HI people or should I say brainiacks😎✔.SO today in chemistry we learned about the soil.As you can see above the are four types but in sch. we only learned about 3(three) types they are:clay,loam,sand.so let’s go!!!👇👍

soil???

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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MAIN COMPONENTS

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Types of soil

loam-Loam is soil composed mostly of sand, silt, and a smaller amount of clay. By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand–silt–clay, respectively

clay-
Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz, metal oxides and organic matter.

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sand-Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles. It is defined by size, being finer than gravel and coarser than silt.

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