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n. - A substance that resembles gelatin and is obtained by boiling cartilage in water.

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  • The distinguishing feature of cartilage chemically is that it yields on boiling a substance called chondrin, very similar to gelatin, but differing from it in several of...
  • All the liquefied chondrin was by this time absorbed.
  • The chondrin which I used acted more powerfully than gelatine, but then I do not know that it was pure.
  • One part of chondrin jelly was dissolved in 218 parts of boiling water, and half-minim drops were given to four leaves; so that each received about 1/480 of a grain...
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