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ALGIN [3 records]

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Record 1 2023-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Food Industries
  • Pharmacology
DEF

A colorless or light yellow powdery or crystalline polysaccharide, the sodium salt of alginic acid, used as a food thickener and stabilizer and in medicines, paint, and paper coating.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Pharmacologie
DEF

Sel de l'acide alginique se présentant sous forme de poudre, de granules ou de filaments incolores ou jaune clair formant dans l'eau une suspension colloïdale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Industria alimentaria
  • Farmacología
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Record 2 2001-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Additives
  • Chemistry
DEF

A hydrophillic polysaccharide (phycocolloid or hydrocolloid) found exclusively in the brown algae.

CONT

Algin [, in the form of alginic acid or alginic acid salts (alginates), is used in] beer, canned fish, fruit drinks, ice cream and ice milk, icings and glazes, milk puddings ...

OBS

[Algin] is analogous to agar. The seaweed (giant kelp) is sea-harvested, water-extracted and refined.

OBS

Purified algin is known as alginic acid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Additifs alimentaires
  • Chimie
DEF

Substance glaiseuse, incolore, peu soluble dans l'eau, que l'on extrait de certaines algues (laminaires notamment) par traitement alcalin, qui solubilise l'alginate de sodium.

CONT

L'algine purifiée est l'acide alginique.

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie

Spanish

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