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glairin

glairin noun: baregine.

Noun

glairin (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) baregine
    • Berzelius supposes humus to contain humic acid, humin, crednic and apocrenic acid, and traces of glairin.1842, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology, page 221
    • The glairin is described by Thomson as a peculiar substance which has been observed in certain sulphureous mineral waters, and was first noticed by Vauquelin ( Ann. de Chim. XXXIX. 173) , who described several of its properties and considered it analogous to gelatin.1842, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair, John White Webster, Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, page 34
    Synonyms:
    baregin, zoogene

Synonyms of glairin

Origin of glairin

From glair + -in.

Questions about glairin

What does glairin mean?
Glairin means baregine.
What part of speech is glairin?
Glairin is a noun.

Words near glairin in the dictionary

  1. glaire
  2. glaired
  3. glaireous
  4. glaires
  5. glairigenous
  6. glairin
  7. glairiness
  8. glairing
  9. glairs
  10. glairy
  11. Glais

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