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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, a complex organic substance which was isolated by Siegfried from muscle-tissue. Its iron salt he calls ferratin. On decomposition it yields, among other bodies, a crystallizable acid, carnic acid, C10H15O5N3, which Siegfried regards as pure antipeptone.

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