Albumen

Albumen (or Albumin) may refer to:

• Albumin, a water-soluble protein.

• The egg white (Albumen) of almost any animal, which consists of water (60-95%) and any of a class of several dozen proteins called 'Albumin", predominantly Ovalbumin.

• Albumen prints, the first commercial photographic prints on paper.
• Archaic and some technical use of "Albumen" can refer to the non-germ bulk of certain grains which serve the same structural and metabolic purposes.

• Albumin (with an 'i') refers to a major class of several hundred proteins (almost all non-globulins) which also predominate in animal connective tissues, especially blood.
• Albumen Records is a UK-based record label.

See also

• Endosperm, tissue produced in the seeds of most flowering plants
• Albumen print, method of producing a print on a paper base from a negative using egg white.
• Egg White

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