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Definition of Egg white

1. Noun. The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water. "She separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"

Definition of Egg white

1. Noun. albumen ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Egg white

1. The white of an egg, especially a chicken's egg, used in cooking. It contains albumin. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Egg white

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

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1900)
"On the Separation of a pure Albumen from Egg-white. ... For this purpose egg-white is intimately mixed with an equal bulk of saturated ammonium sulphate ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"FRACTIONAL PRECIPITATION OF egg white. Six liters of the whites of freshly laid eggs were gradually and carefully mixed with an equal volume of saturated ..."

3. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1921)
"egg white is practically free from fat. The inorganic constituents of the egg white are chiefly phosphorus and calcium. The sulphur in albumen is the source ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Ovalbumin is the chief proteid constituent of egg-white. ... Only about one-half ot the proteid of egg white can be obtained as crystallised ovalbumin ..."

5. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1921)
"Raw egg white left the stomach much more rapidly than any other form of egg preparation. A moderate secretion of gastric juice was induced in subjects of a ..."

6. Practical Physiological Chemistry by Sydney William Cole (1920)
"By means of a pipette add an equal volume of dilute serum or egg-white, inclining the tube during the addition so that the protein solution is "layered" on ..."

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