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.
有了這些豐富多樣的研究材料，科研人員可以勾畫出比現在已知的更爲細節化的種族圖譜。
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博士最開始採用的材料正是他在自然納米技術襍志所描述的那樣，是由直逕爲百萬分之一米緊密排列的聚苯乙烯小球組成。
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.
日本京都大學的研究者們希望可以複制他們的成功經騐，以皮膚組織爲原始材料，讓男性擁有自己的親生孩子。

I want to look at the energy starting from real material.
我們從身邊真實的材料說起這些能量。
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