Alginic acid

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Alginic acid is a linear polysaccharide extracted from the cell walls of brown algae. It is a block copolymer of D-mannuronic acid and L-guluronic acid. Alginic acid is widely used in the food industry as a thickening and gelling agent. In biomedicine, it is used to form biocompatible hydrogels for applications such as drug delivery and tissue engineering.