protoplasm

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Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should like to know,' cried the professor angrily, 'where we should all be without Protoplasm.'

From 'That Very Mab' by Kendall, May

Protoplasm is here understood in the modern chemical sense and comprises under this name all substances analogous to the white of an egg, otherwise called protein substances.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich

Protoplasm being the clay, this something is the Potter.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

Protoplasm, with which the simplest manifestations of life are associated, is not a compound, but a structure built up of compounds.

From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.