Sentence examples for principal application of from inspiring English sources

The principal application of propylene is in the preparation of polypropylene.

Data processing, the principal application of computers at the time, did not capture his imagination.

The principal application of the astrograph is to determine the positions of a large number of faint stars.

For lengthy treatment of the principal application of fireclay brick and tile, see the article building construction.

The principal application of radium is the use for therapeutic purposes of the biological action of the rays (see RADIOTHERAPY; THERAPEUTICS).

While modest pressures (less than 1,000 atm) have long been used in the manufacture of plastics, in the synthesis of chromium dioxide for magnetic recording tape, and in the growth of large, high-quality quartz crystals, the principal application of high-pressure materials technology lies in the synthesis of diamond and other superhard abrasives.

For detailed description of one of the principal applications of cement, see the article building construction.

For a thermocouple made of iron and constantan (an alloy of 60 percent copper and 40 percent nickel), the electromotive force is about five millivolts when the cold junction is at 0° C and the hot junction at 100° C. One of the principal applications of the Seebeck effect is the measurement of temperature.

The principal applications of laccase-mediator system are bleaching and delignification in the paper industry.

The principal applications of hemicellulose, after appropriate modifications, are as food additives, drug encapsulation and delivery, hydrogels, and emulsification because they provide useful properties.

Finally, the principal applications of VCD spectroscopy, which include measurements of the conformation, absolute configuration and enantiomeric excess of chiral molecules are discussed.