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Definition of Polysaccharides
1. polysaccharide [n] - See also: polysaccharide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polysaccharides
Literary usage of Polysaccharides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"polysaccharides. The second great group of carbohydrates, namely the non- sugars
or polysaccharides, are substances of high molecular weight, ..."
2. Text-book of Physiological Chemistry in Thirty Lectures by Emil Abderhalden (1908)
"The group of polysaccharides is subdivided, according to the number sugar molecules
which enter into their composition, into di-, tri-, tetras; charides, ..."
3. Practical Physiological Chemistry by Sydney William Cole (1920)
"Though the polysaccharides yield reducing sugars by acid hydrolysis the above
... C. polysaccharides. These compounds are formed by the condensation of ..."
4. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"THE polysaccharides. The polysaccharides are substances of high molecular weight
The size of their molecule is unknown, but it is composed of a large number ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon; Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1910)
"polysaccharides or complex sugars. — Examples are cane sugar, ... polysaccharides,
that are not sugars. — Examples are cellulose, starch, and gums. ..."
6. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"The higher polysaccharides result from the monosaccharides in the same way as the
... In conformity with their structure, the polysaccharides all yield ..."
7. Catalysis in Organic Chemistryby Paul Sabatier by Paul Sabatier (1922)
"... hydrochloric acid or with sulphuric acid diluted with four volumes of water,
the aldehyde and the alcohol being set free. 323. polysaccharides. ..."
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