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Definition of Leucosin
1. a cereal albumen [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leucosin
Literary usage of Leucosin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Proteins of the Wheat Kernel by Thomas Burr Osborne (1907)
"Since extracts of wheat embryo were so rich in leucosin, the diastatic power of the
... HYDROLYSIS OF leucosin. In order to determine the proportion of the ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"leucosin. In the seeds of wheat, rye and barley there is found a small quantity
of a protein having the properties of an albumin, being soluble in water and ..."
3. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"leucosin is an albumin, coagulating at 52°, but precipitates from salt solution
by saturating with sodium chloride or magnesium sulphate. ..."
4. The Soluble Ferments and Fermentation by Joseph Reynolds Green (1901)
"In them all he has found an albumin which he has named leucosin, besides a globulin
and a proteose. All ferment extracts which he prepared from any of these ..."
5. The Journal of Medical Research (1901)
"The leucosin of wheat and rye were the only two similar proteins that reacted
alike, therefore the above table — like the preceding ones and like tables in ..."
6. The Nutrition of Man by Russell Henry Chittenden (1907)
"Further, " in respect to the amount of these amino- acids, leucosin more nearly
resembles the animal proteins than the seed proteins thus far examined, ..."
7. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"leucosin, identical in composition and properties with the albumin obtained from
wheat, rye, and barley. 3. A Proto-proteose, of the ..."
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