Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon content between 0. 02 % and 2. 14 % by mass.

For example the standard glutamic acid ( glutamate ) and the non-standard gamma-amino acid gamma-amino-butyric acid ( GABA ) are respectively the brain's main excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters, hydroxyproline-a major component of the connective tissue collagen-is synthesised from proline, the standard amino acid glycine is used to synthesise porphyrins used in red blood cells, and the non-standard carnitine is used in lipid transport.

Logistic services, supply of artillery ammunition has always been a major component of military logistics.

It is a major brain component in many vertebrates, but is greatly reduced in primates.

The major industrial-scale uses of boron compounds are in sodium perborate bleaches, and the borax component of fiberglass insulation.

Electrons ( the other major component of the atom ) are leptons.

In muscle tissue, it serves as a major component of the endomysium.

A major component of the Christology of the Apostolic Age was that of Paul the Apostle.

All groups not of small 2 rank can be split into two major classes: groups of component type and groups of characteristic 2 type.

The major component ( 77 %) is the p, p ' isomer which is pictured at the top of this article.

It served as a major component in the development of rock and roll and many other genres of music.

In the 1940s, some evidence had been found pointing to another macromolecule, DNA, the other major component of chromosomes, as a candidate genetic molecule.

The peak radiation of most stars lies here, so the observation of the stars that form galaxies has been a major component of optical astronomy.

By 1989, GPL came into being and the only major component missing was the kernel.

It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes.

With second wave feminism and growth of scholarship in women's history and sexuality in the 20th century, the definition of lesbian broadened, sparking a debate about sexual desire as the major component to define what a lesbian is.

While glycerophospholipids are the major component of biological membranes, other non-glyceride lipid components such as sphingomyelin and sterols ( mainly cholesterol in animal cell membranes ) are also found in biological membranes.

Water can also be used on its own, or as a major component in combination with one of the other base oils.

Pruning is a major component to the quality of the wine that is produced.

An alloy is a mixture of two or more elements in solid solution in which the major component is a metal.

This work resulted in their jointly authored publication Incomes from Independent Professional Practice, which introduced the concepts of permanent and transitory income, a major component of the Permanent Income Hypothesis that Friedman worked out in greater detail in the 1950s.

Today further experimental research on Mach appears to have ended, although Mach and its derivatives are in use in a number of commercial operating systems, such as NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and most notably Mac OS X using the XNU operating system kernel which incorporates an earlier ( non-microkernel ) Mach as a major component.

Ribosomal RNA is a major component of the ribosome, and catalyzes peptide bond formation.

An automated online assistant providing customer service on a web page, an example of an application where natural language processing is a major component.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

Respecting their need, one of the major focal points of our concern is the South-Asian region.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

If companies will take the time to give objective consideration to their major problems and to the questions they provoke, then a long constructive step will have been taken toward more effective marketing in next decade.

So we asked such men in major companies in the design field to offer their opinions on the `` dual-road-up '' problem -- and more importantly -- their solutions.

In addition, many of the hard-surface cleaners used for walls and woodwork had their genesis in trisodium orthophosphate, which is still the major ingredient of a number of such products.

and they have begun to develop a capacity to deal realistically and simultaneously with all the major sectors of their economies.

The major weakness of vocational training programs in labor surplus areas is their focus on serving solely local job demands.

The members of the educational profession have a major voice in the determination of educational policy, their position being strongest in the universities.

Mines need to be recognized as a major element in anti-submarine warfare employment, extended to deep water, and have their effective area per unit increased.

With few exceptions, the major denominations are rapidly losing their hold on the central city.

Not satisfied with various unofficial checks on the liveliness of baseballs currently in use, the major leagues have ordered their own tests, which are in progress at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

The Republicans did maintain their majorities in Congress and in the major states, except New York.

Once he has received this blessing, the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense, but their major superior under canon law, and has the additional authority to confer the ministries of acolyte and lector ( formerly, he could confer the minor orders, which are not sacraments, that these ministries have replaced ).

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

Lane and Alcott collaborated on a major expansion of their educational theories into a Utopian society.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

To show their appreciation and affection, the Ismā ' īliyya weighed their Imam in gold, diamonds and, symbolically, in platinum, respectively, the proceeds of which were used to further develop major social welfare and development institutions in Asia and Africa.

Neither Alfred's reformed fyrd nor his burhs alone would have afforded a sufficient defence against the Vikings ; together, however, they robbed the Vikings of their major strategic advantages: surprise and mobility.

For private suits only the victims or their families could prosecute, while for public suits anyone ( ho boulomenos, ' whoever wants to ' i. e. any citizen with full citizen rights ) could bring a case since the issues in these major suits were regarded as affecting the community as a whole.

It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.