Constituent Cellulose | SSHADE

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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 and bonds

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

Crystals and texture

Texture: macromolecular

Optical properties

Color: white