Definition of Pentosans

1. pentosan [n] - See also: pentosan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentosans

pentofuranosides
pentoic
pentolinium tartrate
pentomic
pentomino
pentominoes
penton
penton base
pentonate
pentonates
pentone
pentonic acid
pentons
pentosan
pentosan sulfuric polyester
pentosans (current term)
pentose
pentoses
pentoside
pentosides
pentostatin
pentosuria
pentosyltransferase
pentosyltransferases
pentothal
pentoxazone
pentoxide

Literary usage of Pentosans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1901)
"I. pentosans in original material 24.86 II. pentosans in residue after alcohol ... pentosans in residue after malt digestion 20.98 IV. pentosans in residue ..."

2. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"The pentosans are amorphous, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute alkali, and are converted by boiling with dilute acids into so-called pentose sugars, ..."

3. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1905)
"FURFUROL TEST FOR PENTOSES AND pentosans. Place the substance to be tested ... For a review and discussion of the methods of determining the pentosans and ..."

4. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1905)
"FURFUROL TEST FOR PENTOSES AND pentosans. Place the substance to be tested ... For a review and discussion of the methods of determining the pentosans and ..."

5. Experimental Organic Chemistry by James Flack Norris (1915)
"Properties of pentosans (SECTIONS 295, 310, 557).— (a) Tests for lignin. ... (b) Hydrolysis of pentosans.—Boil a little gum arabic or wheat bran with 10 cc. ..."

6. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals): A by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"Furfural - (a + 0.0052) X 0.5170 Pentoses = (a + 0.0052) X 1.0170 pentosans = (a + 0.0052) X 0.8949 (6) For weight of ..."

7. Principles of Human Nutrition: A Study in Practical Dietetics by Whitman Howard Jordan (1912)
"The pentosans. — These bodies are very widely distributed in nature, ... pentosans, on hydrolysis, yield pentose sugars, among which are arabinose and ..."

8. The Nutrition of Farm Animals by Henry Prentiss Armsby (1917)
"pentosans. — The pentosans are widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom and appear to be contained chiefly or wholly in the cell walls of plants, ..."

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