Word: albumin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...
...concentrated, albumin blood plasma has been developed. It can be injected with a hypodermic; four ounces is equivalent to two pints of the old plasma...
...Danish factory which has made blood albumin for use as adhesive in plywood is now turning to the manufacture of dried-blood powder and plasma for use in the food industry...
...different from old "as a 1940 automobile from a vintage of 1910." Plywood is at least as old as 1900 B. C.-for a mummy case dated thereabouts, and discovered in Egypt, was made of it. But until recently the only glues available were starch glue from tapioca, blood albumin glue from slaughtered cattle and other animal glues. None of these was an adhesive that would "really stand up and fight with tension, torsion, or shear...