sodium carboxymethyl cellulose

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   a gummy substance that is a sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose; used as a thickening or emulsifying agent

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Questions about sodium carboxymethyl cellulose

What does sodium carboxymethyl cellulose mean?

sodium carboxymethyl cellulose means "a gummy substance that is a sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose; used as a thickening or emulsifying agent".

Is sodium carboxymethyl cellulose a common word?

sodium 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.