glairin

English

Etymology

From glair +‎ -in.

Noun

(archaic) A glairy viscous substance that forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their enclosures.
- 1842, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology, page 221:
  Berzelius supposes humus to contain humic acid, humin, crednic and apocrenic acid, and traces of glairin.
- 1842, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair, John White Webster, Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, page 34:
  The glairin is described by Thomson as a peculiar substance which has been observed in certain sulphureous mineral waters, and was first noticed by Vauquelin ( Ann. de Chim. XXXIX. 173) , who described several of its properties and considered it analogous to gelatin.
- 1852, Justus Liebig, Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry and the Allied Sciences, page 431:
  He states that the glairin of the sulphuretted water of Aix, in Savoy, is white, but slightly soluble in water, and more soluble in concentrated acids, from which it may be precipitated in bluish-white flakes.
- 1883, Journal - Chemical Society, London - Volume 44, page 302:
  The glairin or baregin found in almost all the hot sulphuretted waters of the Pyrenees, is a very complex substance, consisting of the remains of animal and vegetable matter, together with various inorganic substances, such as crystals of sulphur, iron pyrites, silica, &c.

Synonyms

baregin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glairin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

airling, lairing, nargili, railing