"prime material" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is of particularly good quality and suitable for a particular purpose. For example, "This piece of wood is prime material for building furniture."
"This is prime material," he said.
But Citarella has had its hands on prime material for years.
What is it about Bach's music that makes it such prime material for rearrangement?
The prime material of this work is scales or scale segments, rising and, more often, falling.
That makes Mr. McCain prime material for the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket, Mr. Dole said.
They also fit neatly into existing cultural notions of science, picking up where Prometheus and Frankenstein left off, turning genetics into prime material for novels, films and videogames.
Though Roosevelt memorabilia has been auctioned for years -- Mrs. Roosevelt sold the late president's stamp collection within a year of his death -- Glenn Horowitz, a rare book and manuscript dealer who plans to bid next week, said that prices for "peachy and prime" materials had escalated in the last decade.
The availability of such prime materials for cement production, as material for agricultural soil restoration, and as material for civil engineering construction will be evaluated.
In particular, their use as primary structural materials in recent years in several technology demonstrator front-line aerospace projects worldwide has provided confidence that has led to their acceptance as prime materials for aerospace vehicles.
Compared with the existing normal emulsified asphalt prime coat material, the interlayer bonding performance of this new prime coat material is significantly improved and the effect of dumper's wheel load is relatively minor.
"A mensch is prime marriage material and a mensch could be hot stuff, too".
