Albumen
['ælbjʊmɪn] or [æl'bjʊmən]
Definition
(n.) The white of an egg.
(n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.
(n.) Same as Albumin.
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Definition
n. the white of eggs: a like substance found in animal and vegetable bodies.—ns. Albū′min one of the classes of albuminoids such as are soluble in water or in dilute acids or alkalis; Albū′minate one of a class of bodies in which albumin appears in weak combination with a base.—v.t. Albuminise′ (phot.) to cover or impregnate with albumen: to coat paper with an albuminous solution.—adj. Albū′minous like or containing albumen: insipid.
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Examples
- The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The albumen of the serum coagulates and rises to the surface in a scum which entangles the impurities and bone black, leaving the syrup light in color. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1848 M. Niépce de St. Victor, a nephew of Daguerre’s former partner, applied to the glass a film of albumen to receive the sensitive silver coating. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Albumen has, however, been supplanted by collodion--a solution of gun-cotton in ether--which is found to be peculiarly suitable for the reception of the sensitive preparation of silver. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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