"material element" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a tangible, physical aspect of something that has a tangible effect on a situation. For example: "The increasing cost of raw materials is a material element in the rising price of goods."
Yet even at this extreme the colonial, material element never entirely vanished.
Speculation was also a major Congressional concern, but speculation is not a material element in mortgage banking operations.
The special complex wettability ascribes to a coupling effect of the material element and the structure element.
And since New York law defines gambling as any bet where there is "a material element of chance," it's not hard to see why the judge ruled that daily fantasy was gambling.
To be more accurate, the soul was the principle of life in something material; it needed the material element to exist, although it was not itself either material or immaterial but, to put it crudely, an abstraction.
The original material element of the mandate is not simply contraception but also sterilization (chemical and surgical) and potentially abortifacient drugs — all "neutral" elements advancing a "compelling" government interest only for those who have already adopted this view.
To the Ophites, man's dilemma results from his being a mixture of these conflicting spiritual and material elements.
For purposes of this section, an asylum application is frivolous if any of its material elements is deliberately fabricated.
Plato's Forms were also intelligible structures and not material elements, but they differed from Pythagorean numbers by being conceived of as separately existent.
The processing mechanics plays an especially important role in the loading history of material elements.
Ideal plastic flows are those for which all material elements follow minimum work paths.
