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Definition of Hexosan
1. a carbohydrate [n -S] - See also: carbohydrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexosan
Literary usage of Hexosan
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 (1900)
"... oxy-hexoses (respectively anhydride) representing intermediate terms of a
complex hexosan-pentosan series ; and in view of this probability we prefer as ..."
2. The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill by J. Newell Stephenson (1922)
"Fusiform. Thick, but tapering toward each end. Fusiform ray is a medullary ray
that is tapered at the ends. Galactan. A hexosan ..."
3. Bacteriology and Mycology of Foods by Fred Wilbur Tanner (1919)
"TABLE VI CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF AGAR-AGAR (After Whittaker, 1911) Chemically
agar is a carbohydrate, a hexosan of the cellulose group of the ..."
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