Albumen

(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.

录入:昆西

• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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