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The Cellulose of Marine Algæ

Nature volume 162, pages 895–896 (1948)Cite this article

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THE term 'algic cellulose' was applied by Stanford1 to an insoluble residue obtained from seaweeds after the removal of algin, and many workers have assumed that this material is identical with the cellulose of land plants. Although denied by some2, this view has been supported by Kylin3 on the evidence of the colour reaction with iodine and sulphuric acid, and by Russell-Wells4, who also demonstrated the solubility of the material in cuprammonium hydroxide and prepared an acetate.

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    E. G. V. PERCIVAL & ALAN G. ROSS

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PERCIVAL, E., ROSS, A. The Cellulose of Marine Algæ. Nature 162, 895–896 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162895a0

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