The phrase "adhere to soil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to agriculture, environmental science, or discussions about how substances or organisms attach to or interact with soil.
Example: "The roots of the plants adhere to soil, providing stability and nutrients for growth."
Alternatives: "stick to soil" or "attach to soil".
Atmospheric americium compounds are poorly soluble in common solvents and mostly adhere to soil particles.
Atmospheric curium compounds are poorly soluble in common solvents and mostly adhere to soil particles.
They move in the films of water that adhere to soil particles.
Indeed, a recent report detailed that prions adhere to soil minerals and remain infectious [ 66] such that unidentified environmental reservoirs of infectivity contribute to the natural transmission of prion diseases in sheep, deer and elk.
During storm events, suspended solids and pollutants adhered to soil surfaces (phosphorus, ammonium and organic nitrogen) were concentrated and discharged during the rapid, conduit flow portion of the hydrograph.
The roughly 400 species of bdelloids live in fresh and brackish water, including puddles, sewage-treatment tanks, and drops of moisture adhering to soil.
For example, with respect to the partial recovery of soil/soil minerals-bound PrPSc after extraction procedures [21], [22], [26], the test could demonstrate whether missing PrPSc still adheres to soil rather than being degraded, or lost.
However, excess P quickly becomes adhered to soil particles owing to its insoluble nature and can lead to deficiencies of copper, iron (Fe), manganese and zinc.
For the hydrophobic M. avium and other mycobacteria, turbidity reductions do reduce numbers (Falkinham et al. 2001), most likely as the cells enter the treatment plant adhered to soil particulates.
This shows with time, the caesium was more firmly adhered to the soil".
To do so, clay fractions recovered from (1) soil adhering to maize roots ("rhizosphere" soil), (2) soil sampled in the vicinity of maize roots but not adhering to the roots ("non rhizosphere" soil) and (3) soil sampled in adjacent un-planted fallow soil ("fallow" soil) were investigated using X-ray diffraction.
