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Same as Gelatin.

, Gel"a*tine (, n. Etym: [F. gélatine, fr. L. gelare to congeal. See Geal.] (Chem.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on t…

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

combine or treat with a bichromate, esp. with bichromate of potassium; as, bichromatized gelatine.

of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. -- Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of p…

osive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [Written also nitrogelatine.]

An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.