building block

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The team identified one phase in particular, β-W2C, that showed exceptional performance in reactions that convert carbon dioxide into key building blocks for fuels and useful chemicals.

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The researchers see a growing practical need to develop new molecular building blocks that can support increasingly sophisticated drug discovery efforts.

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Early advertising campaigns helped popularize terms like "litterbug," while today the focus has shifted to "chemical recycling," promoted by industry as a way to break plastics down into their basic building blocks.

From Barron's

During this process, tiny chemical building blocks can be delivered to newly formed rocky worlds.

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This supports the idea that the brain relies more on flowing context than on strict linguistic building blocks.

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