This, in turn, suggested that the basic constituents of the components were preserved through the interaction, confirming the corpuscular chemical theory over the scholastic view that chemical transformation involves the substantial form of given matter being destroyed and replaced by some other substantial form.
Finding the Higgs particle would complete an essential chapter in our quest to understand the basic constituents of the universe.
There is a sense in which these transcripts are the basic constituents of the genome its atoms, if you like.
And as a wine fanatic, I want to know not only the basic constituents of the wine, but other ingredients that might have been used in the processing.
At an early stage his Sussex research group transferred its expertise from atomic beams to neutrons, basic constituents of the nucleus that have no electric charge but do possess a magnetic moment.
In this research, fly ash, an alkaline liquid mix of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate, and crumb rubber were used as the basic constituents of the geopolymer.
Leibniz's monadology exemplified both errors, for Leibniz thought that, merely by rationally considering the problem of the divisibility of matter, he could conclusively demonstrate that the basic constituents of the universe were unextended soul-like entities.
It is through these forms that the network connecting the basic constituents of the world (individuals and universals, substances and accidents, concrete properties, like being-white, and abstract forms, like whiteness) is disclosed to us.
