What does the word gelatin mean?
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An immediate animal principle. It is semitransparent, insipid, inodorous, insoluble in cold water, very soluble in hot, which it thickens, and transforms into jelly on cooling. Gelatin is a nutritious substance; and, when dissolved in a considerable quantity of water, forms an emollient fluid, much used in therapeutics, but not the most easy of digestion. Two forms of gelatin are admitted- the one glutin or gelatin proper: the other chondrin.
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Usage examples for gelatin
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This may be due to my defective experiments, or to a fact noted by Elster and Geitel concerning the photo- electric properties of gelatin. – The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by J. (John) Joly
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Light which is " silver white" on dead fish becomes " greenish" on salt- peptone- gelatin media and more yellow on salt- poor media. – The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton Harvey
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