starting material

基本解释

With such diverse and abundant starting material, the researchers were able to sketch a picture of ethnicity far more detailed than previously known.
有了这些丰富多样的研究材料，科研人员可以勾画出比现在已知的更为细节化的种族图谱。
His starting material, as he describes in a paper in Nature Nanotechnology, is made of closely packed polystyrene spheres about a millionth of a metre in diameter.
Braun博士最开始采用的材料正是他在自然纳米技术杂志所描述的那样，是由直径为百万分之一米紧密排列的聚苯乙烯小球组成。
The Kyoto University researchers hope to be able to repeat their success using sliversof skin as starting material, allowing men to father children that are genetically their own.
日本京都大学的研究者们希望可以复制他们的成功经验，以皮肤组织为原始材料，让男性拥有自己的亲生孩子。

I want to look at the energy starting from real material.
我们从身边真实的材料说起这些能量。
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