The phrase "a different element in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing various components or aspects within a particular context or subject matter.
Example: "In our analysis, we identified a different element in the data that could significantly impact our conclusions."
Alternatives: "another aspect of" or "a distinct factor in".
We took photographs which contained bystanders but were focussed on a different element, in this case a sign or a presenter with slides.
In the end we tried five very different restaurants, from medium-elegant to quite casual, each representing a different element in the wonderfully varied gastronomic mosaic of Bombay: northern Indian, seafood, Gujarati vegetarian, Parsi and Goan.
I would liken it to a shaft of sunlight perceived underwater; I am conscious of it, but I am proceeding in a different element, in a decidedly murkier dimension.
HuR action can be antagonized by AUF1 (Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein D) which binds to a different element in the p21 3′-UTR and leads to p21 mRNA instability [ 53].
It is possible that another mutation in the same regulatory element, a different element, or even in a trans-acting transcription factor may be responsible for lactase persistence in Africans.
"The Wire" could have been called "The Web" — each season involved a different element of life in Baltimore (the drug trade, the waterfront, the city bureaucracy, the educational system, and the press), creating, over all, an intricate picture of the way things work, and don't work, in that city.
The co-precipitation mechanisms are closely related to the cooperative austenite reversion process, which is governed by Mn diffusion and segregation: this leads to a different element enrichment degree in dual phase.
Under certain circumstances the repelling electromagnetic force becomes stronger than the nuclear force, and nucleons can be ejected from the nucleus, leaving behind a different element: nuclear decay resulting in nuclear transmutation.
In a sideboard drawer my father kept a pack of cards – a periodic table set, in which every card showed a different element, its atomic structure set out in the old-style, a neutron planet orbited by electron moons.
He works in a different element, out of sight.
They didn't belong at The Country Club, they belonged in a different element".
