Macromolecule

Cellulose

AMW:CHEM:050109

A polysaccharide with glucose units linked as in CELLOBIOSE. It is the chief constituent of plant fibers, cotton being the purest natural form of the substance. As a raw material, it forms the basis for many derivatives used in chromatography, ion exchange materials, explosives manufacturing, and pharmaceutical preparations.

Biochemistry biochemical

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Cellulose has parent Biopolymers

Cellulose, Oxidized has parent Cellulose

Hypromellose Derivatives has parent Cellulose

Lignin has parent Cellulose

Cellobiose has parent Cellulose

DEAE-Cellulose has parent Cellulose

Methylcellulose has parent Cellulose

Cellophane has parent Cellulose

Collodion has parent Cellulose

Cellulose has parent Glucans

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