Sentence examples for was a minor component from inspiring English sources

He said the protein was a minor component of the seed that appeared to be involved in storing energy.

Pine made up the majority of living tree volume (58.7%) followed by spruce (17.1%), while living deciduous trees was a minor component (1.4%) in terms of basal area in the landscape.

This raises the question of whether ilmenite was a minor component of the porcelain body or was it added to the blue pigment to produce a darker shade of blue? Figure 4 presents a range of spectra collected from various regions of shard #2 which was glazed.

STS mediated the release of NO principally through an NF-κB-dependent mechanism although there was a minor component of NO that was independent of NF-κB.

Converse to the distribution of Stypopodium, Padina, Sargassum, and Laurencia, P. lobata commonly occurred in forereef regions of reefs located south of Midway Atoll, but was a minor component of reefs at both Midway and Kure (Table S3).

Diesel exhaust was a minor component of the CTR and PNS samples (both seasons) but contributed substantially to the mass in the urban/industrial sites, especially BHM-winter.

A second group of neutral lipids that are of physiological importance, though they are a minor component of biological systems, are waxes.

Magellanic Cloud, either of two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, the vast star system of which Earth is a minor component.

"But when you consider how many MRSA infections are occurring in North America at the moment, if they're a minor component of a major disease, that's still something we need to be aware of".

Although dust is a minor component in galaxies, it captures a large fraction of the stellar emission, especially at short wavelengths.

Structural analysis of the oligomers suggested that phthalocyanine rings were a minor component of the thermoset networks, while polyisoindolines were the primary structural motif.