First, the requirement that be a primitive element of can be relaxed.

Using this algebraic approach, quite complex process descriptions can be easily constructed from a few primitive elements.

Several of these primitive elements were still alive in 1200.

A primitive element of the human psyche, she thought.

Transformation is made up of primitive elements of flows and stocks.

Therefore in this case trial-and-error is a possible practical method to find primitive elements.

For Van Helmont, air and water were the two primitive elements.

In this way, semantic markers decompose the meanings of words into more primitive elements.

It is with this savage, primitive element that the poem begins:

These narrow primitive elements stem from aspects of his personal history which are usually repressed.