While the element of social protest was present in the rebellion, the tone was set by the anarchic element whose aim was simple loot and destruction.
In today's oceans, iron is in such short supply that it is a limiting nutrient — an essential element whose scarcity holds biological productivity in check.
About 60% of the nitrogen applied to crops worldwide is not needed, as well as about half of the phosphorus, an element whose readily available sources are dwindling.
Because it is an element whose importance — mammals need it to breathe — was already apparent, and thus its discovery could be readily comprehended.
The Russian chemist Karl Karlovich Klaus established (1844) the existence of this rare, bright metal and retained the name his countryman Gottfried Wilhelm Osann had suggested (1828) for a platinum-group element whose discovery had remained inconclusive.
The photocells were connected to a group of components that Rosenblatt called associator units — the second element — whose function was to collect the electrical impulses produced by the photocells.
Modern social science, he contends, is based on the belief that it is possible to explain events by searching for the "independent variable," the "element whose removal from a causal chain would alter the outcome".
Carbon is an element whose atoms have an almost infinite capacity for uniting with each other in chains and rings and various other configurations, and for becoming linked with atoms of other substances.
Though forecast, the rain provided one element whose impact could not have been factored so closely into the minute-by-minute choreography of pomp and circumstance in which the royal household excels — the outfits and the pearls, the queenly hats, the guards' shining breastplates, the prancing stallions, the soaring choruses of "God Save the Queen".
Nebulium, hypothetical chemical element whose existence was suggested in 1868 by the English astronomer Sir William Huggins as one possible explanation for the presence of unidentified (forbidden) lines (at 3,726, 3,729, 4,959, and 5,007 angstroms wavelength) in the spectra of gaseous nebulae.
Freud's elaboration of his therapeutic technique during these years focused on the implications of a specific element in the relationship between patient and analyst, an element whose power he first began to recognize in reflecting on Breuer's work with Anna O.
