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Definition of Glairin
1. n. A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.
Definition of Glairin
1. Noun. A glairy viscous substance that forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their enclosures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glairin
1. organic matter in mineral waters [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glairin
Literary usage of Glairin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair, John White Webster (1841)
"... The extract obtained by Berzelius from black, brownish soils has been designated
as humic extract, in some cases with a substance called glairin. ..."
2. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Geological Survey, Edward Hitchcock (1841)
"... with humic acid ami humin, and occasionally traces of glairin, embrace all
yet detected in the organic matter of soils, which he denominates humus. ..."
3. Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig (1843)
"The glairin is described by Thomson as a peculiar substance which has been observed
in certain sulphureous mineral waters, and was first noticed by ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1871)
"... more freely in concentrated acids, and is precipitated from this solution in
blue-white flocks. — The water which drops from the glairin deposits ..."
5. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts. By Edward Hitchcock by Edward Hitchcock (1841)
"... with humic acid and humin, and occasionally traces of glairin, embrace all
yet detected in the organic matter of soils, which he denominates humus. ..."
6. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"i»- in ap]>earance, as glottal acrtic or jiho-phoric ac id.
Gladiolus (f!<:Jei>'-lns) [dim. of sword]. The middle or second piece of the
sternum. glairin ..."
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