agar

thickening agent used in microbiology and food
ChemicalSubstance polysaccharide Q177998
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agar

Summary

agar is a polysaccharide[1]. agar ranks in the top 7% of polysaccharide entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,018 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • agar's instance of is recorded as polysaccharide[3].
  • agar's instance of is recorded as food ingredient[4].
  • agar's Commons category is recorded as Agar[5].
  • agar's country of origin is recorded as Asia[6].
  • agar comprises agarose[7].
  • agar comprises agaropectin[8].
  • agar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Agar[9].
  • agar's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • agar's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • agar's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • agar's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Food and drink[13].
  • agar's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Microbiology[14].
  • agar's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Algae[15].
  • agar's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Veganism and Vegetarianism[16].
  • agar's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Southeast Asia[17].
  • agar's affiliation string is recorded as Algues vermelles[18].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for agar include Agar.io[19], a browser game[20].

Why It Matters

agar ranks in the top 7% of polysaccharide entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,018 views/month).[2] agar has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] agar is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for agar include Agar.io[19], a browser game[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin
    Instance of polysaccharide, food ingredient
    Maintained by wikiproject WikiProject Food and drink, WikiProject Microbiology, WikiProject Algae +2
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 1850780
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007293085005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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