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Definition: Egg White |
Egg WhiteNoun1. The white of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Egg WhiteSynonyms: albumen (n), ovalbumin (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is often used and separated for cooking (for meringues, soufflés, and some omelettes), which is where it derives its name from: when egg white is beaten it turns white.
In schools it often used to teach pupils how to test for protein using Biurets reagent.
The proteins in egg white (like all proteins) are made of long chains of amino acids. (like beads on a string). In a raw egg, these strings are ravelled up in a tangled compact mass.There are bonds between the amino acids within each protein that stop the ball from unravelling. As the egg cooks the heat causes the bonds within the proteins to break. Each ball of protein unfolds and tangles up with the other protein balls. Bonds form between the amino acids on different proteins setting the albumen into a rubbery gel. The process happens more rapidly in salt water, which is at a higher temperature when it boils.
The protein partially unravels and forms a good foaming agent. A foam is formed by the protein forming a stable film around the included air.Studies show that the best foam forms when the unraveling of the protein is only partial.Overbeating egg white destabalises the foam by completely unravelling the protein molecules. The protein is elastic, so when the egg white is cooked, and the air expands, the white stretches then sets in the expanded position.What happens to egg white as it cooks
What happens to an egg white as it is beaten
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Egg white."
Crosswords: Egg White |
| English words defined with "egg white": Albugineous, albumen ♦ deviled egg, divinity, divinity fudge ♦ Glair ♦ Halones, hard-boiled egg ♦ meringue kiss ♦ Ovalbumen, ovalbumin ♦ pink lady ♦ stuffed egg ♦ woolly adelgid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "egg white": Conalbumin ♦ Death from Strange Causes ♦ EGG BREAKER, egg liqueur / advocaat / avocat / Advokat ♦ Ovomucin. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
egg white | 125 |
egg white protein | 39 |
calorie egg white | 25 |
protein in egg white | 18 |
powdered egg white | 12 |
dried egg white | 11 |
egg white powder | 9 |
egg white protein powder | 3 |
boiled egg white | 2 |
beating egg white | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egg white"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | e bardha e vazës. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蛋白 (albumen, protein). (various references) | |
Czech | bílek (albumen, white). (various references) | |
Danish | ovalbumin (ovalbumin), æggehvide (ovalbumin, protein, proteins), ægalbumin (ovalbumin). (various references) | |
Dutch | ovoalbumine (ovalbumin), ovalbumine (ovalbumin), kippeneiwit (ovalbumin), kippeeiwit (ovalbumin). (various references) | |
French | ovalbumine, blanc d'oeuf. (various references) | |
German | eiweiß (albumen, albumin, protein, proteins, white, white of egg), Eieralbumin (ovalbumin), Eialbumin (ovalbumin), Ovalbumin (ovalbumin). (various references) | |
Greek | ασπράδι αυγού (albumen, ovalbumin), αυγοαλβουμίνη (ovalbumin). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tojásfehérje (albumen, glair, white of egg). (various references) | |
Italian | ovoalbumina (ovalbumin), bianco d'uovo (ovalbumin). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蛋白 (protein). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"ぱく (candid, frank, indifferent, ingenuous, light, plain, protein, simple). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eggay itewhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | clara do ovo (ovalbumin), albumina do ovo (ovalbumin). (various references) | |
Russian | яичный белок (egg-white, glair). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | belance (albumen, glair). (various references) | |
Spanish | ovoalbúmina (ovalbumin), huevo de color blanco, clara de huevo (albumen, ovalbumin), clara (bright period, culling, thinning, white). (various references) | |
Swedish | äggvita (albumen, albumin, white of egg). (various references) | |
Turkish | yumurta akı (albumen, albumin, glair, white of egg). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-h-i-t-w" | |
-2 letters: weight. | |
-3 letters: eight, gighe, weigh, white, wight, withe. | |
-4 letters: ghee, thee, thew, twee, twig, weet, whee, whet, whig, whit, wite, with. | |
-5 letters: egg, eth, ewe, gee, get, ghi, gie, gig, git, het, hew, hie, hit, tee, teg, tew, the, tie, wee, wet, wig, wit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-h-i-t-w" | |
+5 letters: overweighting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 67 57 68 69 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01100111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g g   W h i t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 0067 0057 0068 0069 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39737325774758671 |
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