essential element
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Cutting-edge chips that can train and power artificial intelligence systems are a crucial and highly sensitive element of the technology rivalry between the United States and China.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
The 914 makes copies by projecting the image of the original document or object onto an electrostatically charged drum coated with a sensitive element called metallic selenium.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Zincite.—A detector in which a crystal of zincite is used as the sensitive element.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
And nevertheless, if we read our mystical doctor, St. Teresa, with care, we shall see that the sensitive element is never excluded, the element of delight—that is to say, the element of personal consciousness.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
By this exhaus tion is meant either the presence of fatigue-stuffs, or the breaking-down of the sensitive element of the tissue, or both of these.
From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir