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Cellulose

"Cellulose" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cellulose" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cellulose" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 46 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2019 and 2020
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