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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by quixoticelixer- on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:31PM (#20436200)
That's not what he is saying, he is saying that most of the biomass is from hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, which it is.
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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by stevenhuang on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:29AM (#20439032)
Which is true but not too relevant, as he explains the limiting factor is not that the biomass is mostly hydrogen/oxygen/carbon, it is the lack of nutrients.

And as cited elsewhere, see Liebig's law of the minimum.

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