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 (969 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • agar's image is recorded as Agar-agar.jpg[3].
  • agar's instance of is recorded as polysaccharide[4].
  • agar's instance of is recorded as food ingredient[5].
  • agar's GND ID is recorded as 4260097-2[6].
  • agar's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 9002-18-0[7].
  • agar's EC number is recorded as 232-658-1[8].
  • agar's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85002042[9].
  • agar's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564983[10].
  • agar's Commons category is recorded as Agar[11].
  • agar's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D000362[12].
  • agar's country of origin is recorded as Asia[13].
  • agar's has part is recorded as agarose[14].
  • agar's has part is recorded as agaropectin[15].
  • agar's E number is recorded as E406[16].
  • agar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/014wv[17].
  • agar's UNII is recorded as 89T13OHQ2B[18].
  • agar's KEGG ID is recorded as C08815[19].
  • agar's MeSH tree code is recorded as D09.698.360.041[20].
  • agar's ZVG number is recorded as 123201[21].
  • agar's ChEBI ID is recorded as 2509[22].
  • agar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Agar[23].
  • agar's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300130954[24].
  • agar's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0075634[25].
  • agar's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • agar's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for agar include Agar.io[28], a browser game[29].

Why It Matters

agar ranks in the top 7% of polysaccharide entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (969 views/month).[2] agar has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] agar is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for agar include Agar.io[28], a browser game[29].

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] . ECHA Substance Infocard database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Integrated Authority File. 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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . 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. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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