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Definition of Lecithins
1. lecithin [n] - See also: lecithin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lecithins
Literary usage of Lecithins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"lecithins.—lecithins as such have been observed in the urine only in ... It is
no doubt referable to decomposition of the lecithins of the food in the ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"THE lecithins. 711 Vauquelin was the first to observe that the substance of the
brain ... Hence it would appear that several different lecithins exist, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"PHOSPHATIDES, lecithins, OR ... or lecithins, the last name being derived from
the Greek ... lecithins ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"Commercially pure samples of lecithins were repurified by several precipitations
from alcoholic solutions by means of acetone and subsequent drying in a ..."
5. The Examination of Hydrocarbon Oils and of Saponifiable Fats and Waxes by David Holde (1922)
"Acids of the Linolenic Scries, CnH,n-,Oi (d) Other Ingredients of Fats 1.
lecithins lecithins are ..."
6. A Laboratory manual of physiological chemistry by Elbert William Rockwood (1899)
"THE lecithins. The lecithins are found in nearly all animal and vegetable cells.
They are very abundant in the brain and nerves and in the yelk of eggs. ..."
7. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"... with large amounts of alcohol-ether in the cold, and the precipitation of the
filtered extract with acetone, which precipitates the lecithins. ..."
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