Elemental
adjective
Related to or caused by forces of nature.
Fire, earth, air, and water are known as elemental forces
Often appears as...
- elemental forces
- elemental forms
adjective
Of or being a basic and important part of something.
Communication is an elemental part of any relationship
Often appears as...
- elemental part
- elemental need
adjective
In chemistry, a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.
Oxygen is an elemental gas
Often appears as...
- elemental substance
- elemental gas
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Academic
adjective
Related to or caused by forces of nature.
Fire, earth, air, and water are known as elemental forces
Often appears as...
- elemental forces
- elemental forms
adjective
Of or being a basic and important part of something.
Communication is an elemental part of any relationship
Often appears as...
- elemental part
- elemental need
adjective
In chemistry, a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.
Oxygen is an elemental gas
Often appears as...
- elemental substance
- elemental gas
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Nature's Forces
Use 'elemental' when explaining natural phenomena with a forceful or mystical quality.
She felt an elemental connection with the storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Control
'Elemental' suggests something powerful and usually beyond human control, like the weather.
The elemental fury of the hurricane was terrifying.
Pro Tip 3/3Primal Quality
'Elemental' often hints at the fundamental, raw qualities of nature itself.
The artist's use of color captured the elemental spirit of the forest.
Pro Tip 1/3Nature's Forces
Use 'elemental' when explaining natural phenomena with a forceful or mystical quality.
She felt an elemental connection with the storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Control
'Elemental' suggests something powerful and usually beyond human control, like the weather.
The elemental fury of the hurricane was terrifying.
Pro Tip 3/3Primal Quality
'Elemental' often hints at the fundamental, raw qualities of nature itself.
The artist's use of color captured the elemental spirit of the forest.
Pro Tip 1/3Nature's Forces
Use 'elemental' when explaining natural phenomena with a forceful or mystical quality.
She felt an elemental connection with the storm.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Control
'Elemental' suggests something powerful and usually beyond human control, like the weather.
The elemental fury of the hurricane was terrifying.
Pro Tip 3/3Primal Quality
'Elemental' often hints at the fundamental, raw qualities of nature itself.
The artist's use of color captured the elemental spirit of the forest.
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Searching For Life in...
And we got a full time series across days, weeks, months, years, across the island, to figure out when microbes colonized these rocks, what that means in terms of a longer term succession of microbial community inside these rocks, and how that influences elemental cycles on our planet.
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How do we learn to work...
and progressing to riskier and harder tasks as they guide and decide she’s ready. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by this kind of learning. It feels elemental, part of what makes us human. It has different apprenticeship, coaching, mentorship, on the job training.
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Steven Johnson: How...
I would argue that it would be the story of a single number, maybe the most elemental measure of progress that we have. Life expectancy at birth. The length of time that the average person can expect to live in a given place at a given time.
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How to spot a...
You can help catch the counterfeits. All you need are some simple tools and a bit of chemistry. First up, the anti-counterfeit detection pen. The pen looks like a highlighter and contains a solution of potassium iodide and elemental iodine.
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Where does gold come...
the creation of the heaviest elements in a supernova takes place in only seconds. But what becomes of the gold after the explosion? The expanding supernova shockwave propels its elemental debris through the interstellar medium,
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The dust bunnies that...
and its elemental composition– were determined by an uncountably large series of random collisions. Change the dust cloud just a bit, and perhaps the conditions wouldn’t have been right for the formation of life on our planet.
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Antony Gormley: Sculpted...
and in general, it just asks us to look again at this world, so different from, in a way, the world that we have been sharing with each other, the technological world, to look again at the elemental world.
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Eric Liu: Why ordinary...
but you cannot help but admire the power literacy of the players involved, their skill. You cannot help but reckon with and recognize the command they have of the elemental questions of civic power —
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The stories of water PIPE...
everyday the ebb and flow of water and the resulting Transfiguration of human behavior offers an elemental portrait of our collective myopia persistence and for better or worse adaptation thank you
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Lithium 101 PIPE National...
helping create a powerful electrical current in lithium batteries. But because of lithium's reactivity, it does not naturally occur in its pure elemental metal form.
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Searching For Life in...
And we got a full time series across days, weeks, months, years, across the island, to figure out when microbes colonized these rocks, what that means in terms of a longer term succession of microbial community inside these rocks, and how that influences elemental cycles on our planet.
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How do we learn to work...
and progressing to riskier and harder tasks as they guide and decide she’s ready. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by this kind of learning. It feels elemental, part of what makes us human. It has different apprenticeship, coaching, mentorship, on the job training.
Video examples
Steven Johnson: How...
I would argue that it would be the story of a single number, maybe the most elemental measure of progress that we have. Life expectancy at birth. The length of time that the average person can expect to live in a given place at a given time.
Video examples
How to spot a...
You can help catch the counterfeits. All you need are some simple tools and a bit of chemistry. First up, the anti-counterfeit detection pen. The pen looks like a highlighter and contains a solution of potassium iodide and elemental iodine.
Video examples
Where does gold come...
the creation of the heaviest elements in a supernova takes place in only seconds. But what becomes of the gold after the explosion? The expanding supernova shockwave propels its elemental debris through the interstellar medium,
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The dust bunnies that...
and its elemental composition– were determined by an uncountably large series of random collisions. Change the dust cloud just a bit, and perhaps the conditions wouldn’t have been right for the formation of life on our planet.
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Antony Gormley: Sculpted...
and in general, it just asks us to look again at this world, so different from, in a way, the world that we have been sharing with each other, the technological world, to look again at the elemental world.
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Eric Liu: Why ordinary...
but you cannot help but admire the power literacy of the players involved, their skill. You cannot help but reckon with and recognize the command they have of the elemental questions of civic power —
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The stories of water PIPE...
everyday the ebb and flow of water and the resulting Transfiguration of human behavior offers an elemental portrait of our collective myopia persistence and for better or worse adaptation thank you
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Lithium 101 PIPE National...
helping create a powerful electrical current in lithium batteries. But because of lithium's reactivity, it does not naturally occur in its pure elemental metal form.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Gord Downie
Canadian Musician
As we move towards resolution and understanding and greater serenity in all aspects of our life, love's pretty elemental and that's nice to know. I think rock 'n' roll is the same. I don't pretend to understand it; it feels confusing and frightening and wonderful.
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Marco Rubio
American Politician
You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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Christopher Nolan
British Director
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
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Christian Camargo
American Actor
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
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Charles Wagner
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
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Karl Kraus
Austrian Writer
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Antony Gormley
British Artist
I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian Author
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Gord Downie
Canadian Musician
As we move towards resolution and understanding and greater serenity in all aspects of our life, love's pretty elemental and that's nice to know. I think rock 'n' roll is the same. I don't pretend to understand it; it feels confusing and frightening and wonderful.
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Marco Rubio
American Politician
You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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Christopher Nolan
British Director
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
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Christian Camargo
American Actor
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
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Charles Wagner
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
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Karl Kraus
Austrian Writer
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Antony Gormley
British Artist
I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
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