• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’ve never heard the word ovalbumin before, but I like it. Albumin largely means protein, but it’s using Latin words ovi (egg) and albus (white) so you’re saying “the denaturation of the egg white in the egg white.”

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      5 months ago

      Ah, maybe! I’m a better cook than I am a student of Latin!