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Cellulose
Structure · C, H, O
- Numbers
- The most abundant organic polymer on the planet, produced on the order of 10¹¹ tonnes a year.
- Kind
- Structure
Function
Glucose chains laid flat and hydrogen-bonded side by side into fibres that almost nothing can digest — the reason wood and cotton exist, and the reason herbivores keep microbes to do the digesting for them.
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