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  • noun Plural form of albuminate.

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Examples

  • These proportions to be modified in such manner that the musculo-albuminates shall not sensibly exceed the normal ratio, for meat in excess itself furnishes fat during transformation.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • A physiological regimen comprising four to five ounces of nitrogenous principles as derived from eight to ten ounces animal muscle and albuminates; three to six ounces of fat; eight to ten ounces of hydrocarbons as yielded by ten to twelve ounces of sugar or starch food.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • Proteids are divided into various subdivisions, as albumins, globulins, albuminates, proteoses and peptones, and insoluble proteids.

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • The animal albuminates are: Albumin from eggs, fibrin from muscles, or flesh, myosin, or synronin, also from animals, casein

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various

  • Meats contain the same general classes of proteins as the vegetable foods; in each the proteins are made up of albumins, glubulins, albuminates, peptone-like bodies, and insoluble proteids.

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • What are the albuminates, and how are they affected by the action of acids and alkalies?

    Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

  • Also, its action may be regulated by altering the strength of the solution, and the liability to form impermeable albuminates thus diminished.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • As we have pointed out, it sometimes acts as an antiseptic or preservative; and this antiseptic or preservative action has been explained on the assumption that insoluble albuminates of lime are formed.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • In this latter case they combine with the blood to form metallic albuminates, which lie as an impenetrable layer on the surface of the wound, and so hinder the action of drugs on the tissue below.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Partly for this reason and partly on account of the formation of the solid albuminates, etc., the elimination of the silver from the body takes place very slowly.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

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