A polysaccharide that consists of a long unbranched chain of glucose units. It is the main constituent of the cell walls of all plants, many algae, and some fungi and is responsible for providing the rigidity of the cell wall. It is an important constituent of dietary fibre. The fibrous nature of extracted cellulose has led to its use in the textile industry for the production of cotton, artificial silk, etc.
Cellulose
A polysaccharide that consists of a long unbranched chain of glucose units linked by 1-4 β-glycosidic bonds (see formula). It is the main constituent of the cell walls of all plants, many algae, and some fungi and is responsible for providing the rigidity of the cell wall. It is an important constituent of dietary fibre. Cellulose occurs typically as microfibrils, each consisting of long parallel arrays of 50–80 cellulose molecules. The fibrous nature of extracted cellulose has led to its use in the textile industry for the production of cotton, artificial silk, etc.
cellulose
- ultrasonic flow meter
- ultrasonic imaging
- ultrasonic range finding
- ultrasonics
- ultrasonography
- ultra-stable oscillator
- ultrastructure
- ultraviolet astronomy
- ultraviolet excess star
- UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph
- ultraviolet microscope
- ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy
- ultraviolet photometry
- ultraviolet radiation
- ultraviolet spectrometer
- ultraviolet spectrophotometer
- ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy
- ultraviolet–visual spectrophotometry
- ultra-wide band transmission
- Ulugh Beg
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- U magnitude
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (581–644)
- Umar ibn Said Tal (1797–1864)
- Umayyad