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Definition of "alginate" []

  • A salt of alginic acid, such as sodium alginate. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "alginate" in a sentence
  • "The secret ingredient: a strongly gelling dietary fiber called alginate."
  • "Industrially available microbes cannot metabolize a sugar called alginate, which makes up half of the sugar content in seaweed."
  • "The secret: bacteria genetically engineered to break down a previously inaccessible sugar in seaweed, called alginate."