Earning a living for yourself and your family through your own efforts is the most elemental form of earned success.

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Although life is, in essence, a complicated form of carbon chemistry, living creatures cannot process carbon in its elemental form.

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Wallis's paintings form an elemental vision of storm-wracked boats, harbours and bridges seen from eerie perspectives and mysterious inland scenes with odd vertical paths.

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The researchers have genetically engineered plants that can transform toxic mercury to a much weaker, virtually harmless, form known as elemental mercury.

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His mode of expression (in wonderful English) is often soulful, yet the movie, though conventional in form, brings us close to an elemental ferocity just barely held in check.

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Elemental carbon had long been thought to exist in only three physical forms: graphite, diamond and an amorphous form, of which charcoal is an example.

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