Algin

Algin

A polysaccharide derived from brown algae. Algins are used for many industrial processes.

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Category: Coral reefs
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algin

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A polysaccharide derived from brown algae. Algins are used for many industrial processes.

alginate

Biology; Biochemistry

Component of the cell walls of many rhodophytes and kelps. Alginates have an affinity for water, and so help to slow dessication when the algae are exposed to the air; they are ...

alginate

Health care; Dentistry

An impression material used by dentists for making stone models.

alginate

Science; General science

A major constituent (10–47% dry weight) of the cell walls of brown algae. Extracted for its suspending, emulsifying, and gelling properties, it is one of three algal ...

alginate

Biology; Ecology

A gelatinous extract of brown seaweed used to make a number of products, including toothpaste, beer, various medicines, paper, and frozen foods.

alginates

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Salts of alginic acid that are extracted from marine kelp and used to make dental impressions and as absorbent material for surgical dressings.

nodulose

Natural environment; Coral reefs

With small nodules, knobs or swellings.

fissure

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A deep and narrow depression cutting across the reef front with origins relating to jointing planes in the reef limestone or non-limestone bedrock.

damselfish

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A large family (Pomacentridae) of bony fishes which are abundant and common inhabitants of coral reefs. They possess robust, deep, and laterally compressed bodies. The majority of ...

complementary resources

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A pair of resources for which consumption by the consumer of one resource reduces its requirement for the other.

antennule

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A small antenna, especially the first pair of antennae in crustaceans.

odontophore

Natural environment; Coral reefs

A tooth-bearing structure found in most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which support the radula and radula sac; the term is also applied ...

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