NOUN
- an orange isomer of an unsaturated hydrocarbon found in many plants; is converted into vitamin A in the liver
How To Use carotin In A Sentence
- In this connection we may mention that one of the first results was the discovery that the yellow colouring matter in corpora lutea of cattle ovaries was by micro-analytical carbon hydrogen determination found to be carotin, the substance which is in carrots widely found in the vegetable kingdom. Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture
- Root contains some volatile oil, a large proportion of pectin, a peculiar coloring principle called carotin, and sugar. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- This observation suggested the chemical relation between the vitamine and carotin. The Vitamine Manual
- The content of vitamin A and carotin is maintained and vitamin B and vitamin C are also well preserved. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 - Presentation Speech
- Typical cereal moulds like the Fusaria react differently to being illuminated, producing higher levels of light protection pigments like carotin, for instance. Innovations-report
- C {40} H {56} and was apparently identical with the carotin of the carrot, while the lutein of egg-yolk was C {40} H {56} O {2} and more soluble in alcohol, less soluble in petroleum ether, than that of the corpus luteum. Hormones and Heredity
- PALMER AND ECKLES: The fate of carotin and xanthophyll during digestion. The Vitamine Manual
- It has however been shown by Palmer and others that carotin is not vitamine A. The Vitamine Manual
- In this connection we may mention that one of the first results was the discovery that the yellow colouring matter in corpora lutea of cattle ovaries was by micro-analytical carbon hydrogen determination found to be carotin, the substance which is in carrots widely found in the vegetable kingdom. Fritz Pregl - Nobel Lecture
- PALMER AND ECKLES: Chemical and physiological relation of pigment of milk fat to carotin and xanthophyll of green plants. The Vitamine Manual