Constituent
Name
Cellulose
Family
covalent network solid
Class
chain covalent network solid
Compound type
organic molecular solid
Constituent abundance in material
Relevance
main - major
Arrangement
single phase
Mass fraction
1.0
Chemical composition
Formula
$H-[C_{6}H_{10}O_{5}]_n-OH$
Chemical formula
H[C6H10O5]nOH
Isotope mixture type
terrestrial abundance
  Formula Name Family Number min-max Mole fraction Mass fraction State Relevance Comments
$C$ Carbon element constituent element main
$H$ Hydrogen element constituent element main
$O$ Oxygen element constituent element main
Composition comments
polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of linked D-glucose units
Chemical functions
  Function Number
$R-OH$
$R-CH2-OH$
Chemical bonds
  Bond Number
$\geq C-H$
$-O-H$
$\geq C-C \leq$
$\geq C-O-$
Phase type
crystalline
Texture
macromolecular
Color
white