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Some saccharine substances, a little fat, but mostly albumen and vegetable caseine, that is to say, the substance which predominates in their lacteal secretions.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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Under the action of light the bichromate employed to sensitize the albumen is reduced into chromic oxide which render insoluble this organic substance — or any other, such as caseine, gelatine, gum arabic, etc.; therefore whenever the film is not acted on in its whole thickness, the subjacent part being still soluble, is necessary washed off and with it the superficial impressed part, that is, the image.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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It is also obtained by the use of rennet, and the process of curding milk is simply the coagulation of its caseine.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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Some of these dissolved albumen, gluten, and caseine, and some transformed starch into sugar.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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The composition of animal caseine has been well ascertained, but considerable doubt still exists as to that of vegetable caseine, owing to the difficulty of obtaining it absolutely pure.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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It is soluble in alkalies, and precipitated from its solution by acids, and in all other respects agrees with vegetable caseine.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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But it appears that this is a mixture of fibrine and caseine, with what is now called _glutine_, and a peculiar oily or fatty matter.
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It is more sensitive when applied on cotton or paper than on wool, silk, linen, and such organic compounds as gelatine, albumen, caseine, starch, etc. Its sensitiveness is about one-tenth less with gelatine than with cotton.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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Whether, therefore, the sample contains a certain proportion of nitrogen, or whether it contains albumen, fibrine, and caseine in sufficient quantity, it may still want the very condition which is essential to the manufacture of good bread.
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-- A brilliant and adhesive paste, adapted to fancy articles, may be made by dissolving caseine precipitated from milk by acetic acid and washed with pure water in a saturated solution of borax.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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