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Casein   /keɪsˈin/   Listen
Casein

noun
(Written also caseine)
1.
A milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives.
2.
A water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk.  Synonym: casein paint.



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"Casein" Quotes from Famous Books



... or to the appreciation that the ability to rear young chicks could find a more profitable outlet than in broiler production. Let us take an analogous case. Suppose a city man should discover the fact that there was a demand for dried casein from skim milk. With pencil and paper he could easily figure profits in the business. If this dreamer would attempt to keep cows for the production of casein and throw away his butter fat, we would have an analogous case to the broiler ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings

... milk, it is almost twice as rich in sugar, and has only one-fourth to one-third as much protein. This protein is vastly different from that found in cow's milk, which you recall has a tough curd, as seen in cottage cheese. While mother's milk contains a small amount of casein similar to that found in the cheese of the cow's milk, the principal protein constituent is of another kind (lactalbumin), and is much more easy of digestion than the ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... "The best artificial food is cream reduced and sweetened with sugar of mill. Analysis shows that human milk contains more cream and sugar and less casein than the milk ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols



Words linked to "Casein" :   water-base paint, casein glue, phosphoprotein



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