carboxymethyl cellulose

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   an acid derivative of cellulose

   Broadercellulose

Questions about carboxymethyl cellulose

What does carboxymethyl cellulose mean?

carboxymethyl cellulose means "an acid derivative of cellulose".

Is carboxymethyl cellulose a common word?

carboxymethyl cellulose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.