ideal element
Britishnoun
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As the lightest metal on the periodic table, and the one most eager to shed its electrons, lithium is the ideal element to make powerful, portable batteries.
From Nature • Oct. 27, 2015
It was the former or ideal element which was examined by Fichte; the latter by Jacobi.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey
It is on the latter or ideal element that Kant makes the emphasis increasingly turn.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Knowledge, or science, he says, is a process of following out the ideal element in experience.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas
What is really wanted is the lifting power of an ideal element in human life.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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