The fibres contain oily material and lignin, a woody plant substance, which makes them too brittle for spinning.
Computers are not inherent sources of distraction — they can in fact be powerful engines of focus — but latter-day versions have been designed to be, because attention is the substance which makes the whole consumer internet go.
Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance, which makes up most of the known universe.
Generally, for a mixture of agonistic substances with the same mode of action, the biological signal is higher than for a single substance which makes in vitro assays highly suitable as screening tools for environmental samples.
Likening the idea to a crack house, federal officials say allowing the use of illicit drugs with impunity enables and exacerbates the intractable opioid problem; the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania argued that opening Safehouse would violate the Controlled Substances Act, which makes it illegal to open or run a place where illegal drugs are knowingly used.
The root of wood avens has an uncanny taste of cloves – it shares the same substance, eugenol, which makes it good for mulled wine and apple pies.
Centaures maculosa releases an allelopathic substance, catechin, which makes its invasion into the new habitats (Callaway and Aschehoug [2000]).
So what it would tell us is that if x is a substance, then the substance of x that which makes x a substance is a subject that x is predicated of.
He concludes by reducing these to two broad senses—(1) substance as hypokeimenon, the ultimate substratum, which is not predicated of anything further; and (2) substance as form that which makes each thing the kind of thing that it is.
Aspirin prevents platelets from sticking to each other; it does so by blocking the enzyme cyclooxygenase, or cox, and stopping production of a substance called thromboxane, which makes platelets sticky.
