Combine the given two facts to write a concluding fact. Note that there should be some parts of the first and second facts that are not mentioned in this conclusion fact. Your combined fact should be the result of a chain between the two facts. Chains form when two facts connect together to produce a concluding fact. An example of a chain is: "pesticides cause pollution" (fact1) + "pollution can harm animals" (fact2) → "pesticides can harm animals" (conclusion fact). Parts of the concluding fact overlap with the first and the second fact. To construct such a  concluding fact, a useful way is to borrow the subject from one fact and the ending conclusions from another fact.

Fact 1: Precipitation increases moisture. 
Fact 2: Rain is also known as precipitation.
Rain increases moisture.

Fact 1: lungs are used for breathing air by land animals. 
Fact 2: African Elephants are the biggest land animals.
african elephants have lungs.

Fact 1: measuring the hardness of minerals requires scratching those materials. 
Fact 2: To figure out the hardness of a mineral, the Moh's scale of hardness is used.

the Moh's scale of hardness is used by scratching the materials.