chief constituent
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The laboratory-born resins, chief constituent of the new plastic glues, set like concrete, are impervious to weather or bacterial attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Mū′cin, an alkaline glutinous fluid forming the chief constituent of mucus.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It is uttered wholly in the dactylic measure, the noblest and most magnificent of all measures, and hence forming the chief constituent in the finest metre we know, the heroic.
From On the Sublime by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
Safrol, an ether which is the chief constituent of sassafras oil, and also found in considerable quantity in camphor oil.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. Simmons
