component

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To simulate inflammation, the researchers exposed murine macrophages to lipopolysaccharide, a bacterial component often used in laboratory experiments.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

End of summer futures prices, a key component of the market’s week-long rally, were trading near $80 a barrel, or 10% south of the mid-March peak.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Potash, the potassium-rich component of fertilizers, has also been in short supply in recent years, in part because of economic sanctions on Belarus and Russia, which are major potash producers.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Admittedly, signs of AI’s runaway costs have been apparent for a while, given the blowout spending of major cloud network operators and the huge growth of key component suppliers like Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Yet Ernest considered the willing distribution of isotopes to all applicants to be a crucial component of the lab’s development.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik