ingredient
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Fears about a shortage of naphtha - a petrochemical produced from crude oil and a key raw ingredient in plastics - are also simmering in Japan.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
One, the Auroura, appeared to be carrying the petrochemical ingredient naphtha from Iran, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
This pointed to the adenovirus itself, rather than a specific vaccine ingredient, as the source of the problem.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026
It is, in other words, an ingredient with range.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026
It was almost funny—not just that the truth had been found in a fairy tale, but that the great secret ingredient should prove so common a thing as a bodily fluid.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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