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- noun Plural form of
albumen .
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In so doing he also touches upon Haeckel's carbon-hypothesis, to which the latter still clings, and says: "That from the properties of carbon, combined with the properties of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc., in certain proportions albumen should result, is a process which in its essence is as incomprehensible as that a living cell should arise from a certain organization of different albumina."
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert
madmouth commented on the word albumina
the text example implies this is the plural of 'albumen'--can anyone corroborate?
December 9, 2009