Definition of Chitins

1. chitin [n] - See also: chitin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chitins

chitchats
chitchatted
chitchatting
chitenge
chitenges
chitin synthase
chitinase
chitinization
chitinizations
chitinlike
chitinoid
chitinolysis
chitinolytic
chitinous
chitins (current term)
chitlin
chitling
chitlings
chitlins
chitobiose
chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferase
chitobiosylpyrophosphoryldolichol synthase
chitodextrinase
chiton
chitons
chitooligomer
chitooligomers
chitooligosaccharide
chitooligosaccharides

Literary usage of Chitins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1911)
"... found that the chitins of different origin show different action with iodine, and he therefore concludes that there must exist quite a group of chitins, ..."

2. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"... the chitins of different origin show different behavior with iodine, and he therefore concludes that there must exist quite a group of chitins, ..."

3. The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India by Afonso de Albuquerque, Walter de Gray Birch (1880)
"... and chitins? who had been the cause of the death of her husband and her ... and set fire to a large number of country houses of chitins and Quilín«, ..."

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