albumen

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This albumen, which is also the chief component of the white of eggs, possesses the peculiarity of coagulating or hardening at a certain temperature, like the white of a boiled egg, into a soft, white fluid, no longer soluble, or capable of being dissolved in water.

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  1. noun The white of an egg, which consists mainly of albumin dissolved in water.
  2. noun See albumin.

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  • People who take the drug also are at higher risk of capillary leak syndrome, which is characterized by at least two of the following symptoms: low blood pressure, and low levels of albumen -- a protein found in human and animal tissues. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • In ten or twelve hours the albumen will be deposited and ready for use The quantity of India ink added to the albumen should be such as the paper be black when coated, but, however, sufficiently transparent for one to see the shadow of objects placed on the back of it, and the coating should not be thick. —  Photographic Reproduction Processes
  • Under the action of light the bichromate employed to sensitize the albumen is reduced into chromic oxide which render insoluble this organic substance—or any other, such as caseine gelatine, gum arabic, etc.; therefore whenever the film is not acted on in its whole thickness, the subjacent part being still soluble is necessary washed off and with it the superficial impressed part that is, the image 2d. —  Photographic Reproduction Processes
  • Usually it contains albumen, the quantity furnishing a fair criterion of the gravity of the affection, and microscopic casts, also most abundant in bad cases. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • It is possible that modern chemistry may be entirely right in alleging the absolute identity of substances such as albumen, or fibrine, whether they occur in the animal or vegetable economies. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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  1. Latin albūmen, from albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. L.; albumen ovi, the white of an egg; literally, whiteness, from albus, white.
 

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