light element

collocation in English

meaningsoflightandelement

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light
adjective
uk
/laɪt/us
/laɪt/
not weighing ...
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element
noun
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us
/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition oflightandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflight element

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A raster area of about 100 m2 was employed for glass analysis to reducelightelementloss.
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The dark contrast of the fossilized cell walls suggests that alightelement(low atomic number), perhaps carbon, is still present.
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We believe this to be an effect of placing a verylightelementat the end of a rather heavy phrase.
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I was trying to introduce a littlelightelementinto it.
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For normal braking, the mainlightelementblinks, as well as blinking just before the vehicle comes to a standstill.
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It is comparably rare for alightelement(elements tend to be more common the lighter they are).
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Plasma cosmology proponents have made further proposals to explainlightelementabundances, but the attendant issues have not been fully addressed.
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Calcium-48 is very neutron-rich for such alightelement, but like calcium-40, it is made stable by being double magic.
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It is unusual being a complex with five nitrate groups, and being a nitrate complex of alightelementwith nitrate.
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Beryllium is prevented from having a stable isotope with 4 protons and 6 neutrons by the very large mismatch in proton/neutron ratio for such alightelement.
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