What are some of the processes of primary succession?

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The development of soil from parent materials, increasing longevity with successional advance, replacement of species with broad ecological requirements by those occupying narrow niches complementary with other species, greater accumulation of living tissue and litter per unit area with successional advance, modification of microenvironmental extremes, change in size of plants from small to large, increase in the number of pathways of energy flow, more nutrients tied up in living and dead organic matter, greater resistance to fluctuation in the controlling factors.

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On many machine torches the cutting tip is positioned very close to the _____.? ?  

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