chief ingredient
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It's named for the chief ingredient that makes it unique: artemisia absinthium, which you might know as wormwood.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2023
And the chief ingredient in the “recipe” for those fancy sunsets of ours isn’t just hot-weather smog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
The chief ingredient in film, gelatin that is derived from collagen, is what helps give human skin its sheen and elasticity.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
He added, reflexively, “The best thing about pea is that it’s not soy”—Impossible’s chief ingredient.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
It melts long before ignition, at 410 of Fahrenheit, and by the continuance of heat is slowly converted into a white powder, which is the chief ingredient in putty, used in polishing, &c.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
