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Uses of Acids and Bases

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why soil becomes acidic when an excess of chemical fertilizers are used?

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The chemical fertilizers contains nitrate and phosphate like compounds so when they are spreaded in the soil they mix with water and accepts a hydrogen from that and there produces the corresponding acids and so the soil becomes acidic.

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