what is carboxymethyl cellulose?

Carboxymethyl artificial or artificial gum is a artificial acquired with carboxymethyl groups apprenticed to a allotment of the hydroxyl groups of the glucopyranose monomers that anatomy the skeleton of cellulose.

It is actinic by the catalyzed acknowledgment in acrid medium, of artificial with chloroacetic acid. Carboxyl arctic groups (organic acid) to the acrid and chemically acknowledging cellulose. It is about acclimated as the sodium salt, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose.