The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 18, 481-484,
Copyright © 1935 by The Rockefeller University Press
OSMOTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE HEN'S EGG AS DETERMINED BY RELATIVE VAPOR PRESSURES
J. M. Johlin 1
1 From the Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville
It has been shown by a comparison of the relative vapor pressures of egg yolk and egg white before and after the addition of sodium chloride to the white that the osmotic pressure of the yolk is greater than that of the white.
Accepted on June 2, 1934