"tipping element" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Paul Wassmann, Arctic Tipping Points, Fundacion BBVA, →ISBN, page 17:",
          "text": "Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point. Trespassing the tipping point for phase transition from ice to liquid water sets all the other tipping elements contained in the Arctic region in motion […]",
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        "Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point."
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          "Earth",
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          "climate system",
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        [
          "tipping point",
          "tipping point"
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        "(climatology) Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point."
      ],
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        "climatology",
        "natural-sciences"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "large-scale components",
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Kippelement"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tipping element"
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          "text": "Accordingly, ice is a tipping element that responds abruptly to changes across this tipping point. Trespassing the tipping point for phase transition from ice to liquid water sets all the other tipping elements contained in the Arctic region in motion […]",
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        "(climatology) Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point."
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