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
Calcium.—Being the chief constituent of the bones, large quantities of calcium salts are stored in the skeleton of the child both before and after birth.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
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 Thomas Salter
It is uttered wholly in the dactylic measure, the noblest and most magnificent of all measures, and hence forming the chief constituent in the finest metre we know, the heroic.
From On the Sublime by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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