Native

(na/-tiv). Coming into existence by birth; of indigenous origin or growth. N. Albumins, a cla of animal proteids occurring in a natural condition in animal solids and fluids. They are soluble in water, and are not precipitated by alkaline carbonates, sodium chlorid, or very dilute acids. Their solutions are coagulated by heat at 65° to 730 C. Dried at 400 C. they yield a clear, yellow or amber colored, friable ma soluble in water, called soluble albumin. The two chief varieties of native albumins are serum-albumin and egg-albumin.