"Gluten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... compounds performing the same functions as albumen—the gluten of cereals, the fibrin of blood, the casein of cheese and the legumin of chickpeas—undergo a similar modification, in varying degrees. Fed, from the moment of leaving the egg, on any one of these substances, the worms thrive very ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... finely-split bamboo. A wild species of silkworm is pressed into the service, and set to spin nuck for the strings—a kind of thread which, although fine, is surprisingly strong. Its strength, however, is wanted for aggression as well as endurance; and a mixture composed of pounded glass and rice gluten is rubbed over it. Having been dried in the sun, the prepared string is now wound upon a handsome reel of split bamboo inserted in a long handle. One of these reels, if of first-rate manufacture, costs a shilling, ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal Vol. XVII. No. 418. New Series. - January 3, 1852. • William and Robert Chambers
... feeds are corn, oats, wheat, barley and buckwheat. The grain by-products, bran, middlings and gluten feed, to which may be added corn meal, ground oats ...
— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.
... fibrin of the blood and albumen; others destitute of it, as fat; some abound in inorganic salts, phosphate of lime, and salts of potash. To explain how the constant waste of these substances may be supplied, a celebrated chemist observes that the albumen, gluten, caseine, and other nitrogenized principles of food, supply the animal with the materials requisite for the formation of muscle and cartilage; they are, therefore, ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings
... those of some shark. "He had also compared the shells discovered in the Italian strata with living species, pointed out their resemblance, and traced the various gradations from shells merely calcined, or which had only lost their animal gluten, to those petrefactions in which there was a perfect substitution of stony matter" (Lyell's Principles, p. 25). About twenty years afterwards, the English philosopher Robert Hooke, in a discourse on earthquakes, written in 1688, but published posthumously ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... pouces de longueur. Comme ces pierres ont toutes un tendance a se partager en rhomboides, il paroit qu'il y a eu anciennement des fentes qui divisoient les bancs en parties de cette forme; et que ces fentes ont ete remplies par du sable qui a ete cimente par un suc ferrugineux; ce gluten solide a rendu ces parties plus dures que le reste de la pierre; et lorsque les injures de l'air ont ronge la surface de ces bancs, les mailles du reseau sont ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton |
