raw material

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Around this time some artists began working on a vast scale in remote locations with the landscape itself as their raw material.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

A key raw material for many of these plastic goods is ethylene, which is derived from naphtha, an oil by-product.

From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026

"Kombucha is a very good example of a product in which chemical composition, biological activity, and sensory profile result from complex interactions between the raw material and fermentative microorganisms."

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

Compared with a year earlier, raw material prices climbed 33.4%, led by sharp increases for conventional crude oil, gold, silver and platinum group metals, and synthetic crude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Finally, the hereditary changes called mutations provide the raw material for evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan