The phrase "affecting element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing factors or components that have an impact on a situation or outcome.
Example: "The affecting element in the study was the participants' prior experience with the subject matter."
Alternatives: "influencing factor" or "impacting component."
An affecting element of this book is the way its elegiac impulses accord with, even as they chafe against, the documentary impulses.
Though his singing was elegant, clarion and worldly wise, there was still an affecting element of choirboy purity in his voice.
The most affecting element of "I went to the house but did not enter" comes from the way Mr. Goebbels explores the elusive texts.
Perhaps the most affecting element of James Landale's "The Last Duel" is its measured account of how peaceable men living ordinary lives, whose worlds were circumscribed by the flow of business transactions and church functions, could be ensnared by the concept of honor and forced into a situation where extreme violence was meted out with extreme politeness.
As the macrofungi are integral part of the forest ecosystems, sometimes the substrate-to-mycelium transfer of metals depend on the relationship between mycelium and symbiotic plant species affecting element absorption and translocation (Yoshida and Muramatsu 1997).
It was found that the cover depth of coal seam may not be the only cardinal affecting element, other quantitative indexes and factors referring to qualitative indexes are also have close relation to CMC.
The documentary offers a healthy, stimulating view of political opinion, but its most affecting elements are the small moments that Demme captures a frail Carter, in the company of Secret Service agents, carrying his own bags into a hotel, or a short conversation that Carter has with a little girl whose name reminds him of his favorite poet.
The PI indicated that Cd, Cr, and Pb were the most affecting elements all over the years.
The two share a bond that transcends language, and Tenzin's strange faithfulness to this out-of-his-depth foreigner is amongst the most affecting elements of Naughty Dog's continuing action franchise.
The mineralogy of fault zones can also affect element distribution during fluid-rock interactions (Yamaguchi et al. 2011b).
Another characteristic that might affect element concentrations is the use of mineral supplements.
