Lignocellulosic materials description

The term lignocellulose, often used for description of plant materials, does not properly describe their main components. Besides cellulose and lignin, the third main component, as indicated above, is hemicellulose, or, more correctly, hemicel-lulosics. The plural form here reflects a set of various heteropolymeric saccharides, the so-called matrix plant polysaccharides. These hemicellulosics mainly form... 

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