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SHEET /m/cellulose · MoleculeFinder curated (no single PubChem compound) · REV 2026.07

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Cellulose

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polysaccharide · plant compound

What is Cellulose?

The most abundant organic polymer on earth: long chains of glucose that build every plant cell wall. Cotton is nearly pure cellulose. from source

CategoryPlant

No single structure

Cellulose is a polysaccharide: a large chain of sugar units. It has no single 2D or 3D structure, molecular weight or SMILES, so MoleculeFinder models it by hand.

ClassPolysaccharideinferred

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