If one were to boil this whole process down, it is the system developed to produce the metal type that would prove to be the most innovative. Many of the processes used to print these books generally existed in one form or another, but the metal type is a stroke of genius as nothing like it had existed before.
Soil Conservation. Soil conservation is a combination of all methods of management and land use that safeguard the soil against depletion or deterioration by natural or human-induced factors.
In a classic example of osmosis, plants use osmosis to absorb water and nutrients from the soil. The solution in the roots of the plants is hypertonic, drawing in water from the surrounding hypotonic soil.