chief constituent
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The laboratory-born resins, chief constituent of the new plastic glues, set like concrete, are impervious to weather or bacterial attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Laurin is the chief constituent of palm-kernel oil, and also one of the principal components of cocoa-nut oil.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by Simmons, W. H.
The term brown, then, denotes rightly a warm broken colour, of which yellow is a chief constituent: hence brown is in some measure to shade what yellow is to light.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
We see it as the chief constituent of all vegetable life, we find it to be invariably present in animal life.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
