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GENERAL SCIENCE 



when heated as in the familiar case of eggs hard boiled. 

 In the process of digestion when acted upon by the gastric 



FIG. 96. Candling eggs. 



and pancreatic fluids it is changed to peptone which more 

 readily dissolves and osmoses. Chemically albumen is 

 very closely related to a substance gluten found "~ 



in 



