natural substance

collocation in English

meaningsofnaturalandsubstance

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natural
adjective
uk
/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us
/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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substance
noun
uk
/ˈsʌb.stəns/us
/ˈsʌb.stəns/
material with particular ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandsubstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a ubiquitousnaturalsubstancethat is widely distributed in nature in plants as well as in animals.
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Although it might be considered a "naturalsubstance" derived from the blood of specially treated animals, it was nevertheless an especially fragile object.
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I do not think anaturalsubstanceis really a chemical substance.
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Fluoride is anaturalsubstanceand it occurs widely in the diet and most water supplies.
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That sounds perfectly reasonable until one knows that the chemical was in fact acetic acid—in other words, vinegar, which is anaturalsubstancewhich occurs particularly in old woodlands.
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It is anaturalsubstance.
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It is dangerous to go down the path of extracting chemical products rather than using anaturalsubstancethat has been around for a long time.
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Carnitine, anaturalsubstanceacquired mostly through the diet, is used by cells to process fats and produce energy.
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It is anaturalsubstancefound in many plants.
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We're being told we have to reduce thisnaturalsubstanceto create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in the earth.
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It is anaturalsubstancefound in the blood and brain of humans and other animals as well as plant tissues.
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Cedar oil, a non-toxicnaturalsubstance, has been proven effective in the eradication of infestations in pets.
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The 7-dehydrocholesterol is anaturalsubstancein fish organs, especially the liver, or in wool grease (lanolin) from sheep.
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Another feature of this disorder may be very low blood levels of carnitine (anaturalsubstancethat helps convert certain foods into energy).
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The side chains of the molecule give it a longer elimination half-life than thenaturalsubstance.
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In the case of natural substances such as human beings, of course, this problem simply doesn't arise.
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It is because the vast majority of human beings alive today deal almost entirely with artefacts far removed from any claim to be natural substances.
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The notion of affinity thus systematically blurred the distinction between natural substances and chemical artifacts.
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Why should natural substances prove to be as substantial, so to speak, as all that?
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In the formation of artifacts, the affinities between natural substances and "extracts" isolated from natural substances were to play a role.
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