albumen
pronunciation
How to pronounce albumen in British English:
UK [ˈælbjumɪn]
How to pronounce albumen in American English:
US [ælˈbjumən]
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- Noun:
- a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids
- the white of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
Word Origin
- albumen (n.)
- 1590s, "white of an egg," from Latin albumen "white of an egg," literally "whiteness," from albus "white" (see alb). The organic substance (which exists nearly pure in egg whites) so called from 1800, also known as albumin (1869, from French albumine).
Example
- 1. " The haugh unit factors together the weight of the egg and the thickness of the albumen layer at the center , " says jones .
- 2. Method : the ethanol content was determined by redox process through the simulation of gastric juice . The effects of tussah colloidal solution , albumen solution and silk turbid li ~ uid on the density of ethanol were compared respectively .
- 3. Normal albumen levels point toward acute .
- 4. Physiology have similar human plasma albumen and is it detoxify , lower the malicious efficiency to have .
- 5. Potatoes contain abundant plant albumen and reasonable nourishment allotment ratio . Nowadays potato is one of the most popular leisure food on international market .