composition
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The agency said samples of the foamy substance, as well as soil and water from a nearby stream, had been collected for laboratory tests to determine their composition and potential environmental impact.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
How does its composition relate to the conventions of portraiture and genre painting?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Greater diversity is generally considered a feature of a resilient and healthy gut microbiome, although the ideal microbial composition can vary between individuals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
By reconstructing the chemical evolution of Etna's lava and comparing it with experimental data, they found that the composition of the volcano's magma has remained remarkably stable despite changes in the surrounding tectonic environment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Would you sign my composition notebook?” one of the girls from Dormitory C asked, holding out the prized fountain pen.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
More complex compositions - with ultrafast trills and combinations that contain lots of information - are more common in temperate forests, where birds tend to communicate at closer range.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Last cycle, seven states had their most expensive judicial elections ever, including Montana and Kentucky, states with partisan compositions more like Kansas.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
She then produced a series of compositions from her findings using city resources and personnel, allowing the artworks to enter the same archival system they were investigating as official public records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The findings provide the clearest evidence yet that the two regions have different temperatures and atmospheric compositions, confirming predictions that had previously existed only in theoretical models.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
As new flies had been born, selected, and bred, the gene frequencies had changed, resulting in populations with new genetic compositions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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