elementing
Elementing is the act of identifying, isolating, or extracting elemental components within a complex system. The term is not widely standardized and is used primarily as a coinage in discussions across different disciplines. In its broad sense, elementing involves reducing a system to its fundamental parts or elements to facilitate analysis, design, or communication.
In chemistry and materials science, elementing aligns with elemental analysis, decomposition of a material into constituent
Examples and caveats: In practice, the term is often avoided in favor of more precise terminology such
See also: decomposition, modular design, feature extraction, elemental analysis.