Cellulose

(self-u-los), Wood fiber; lignose. The principal ingredient of the cell-membranes of all plants. It is a white, amorphous ma , insoluble in most of the usual solvents. In biology, the primary substance of organic cell-walls, characteristic of plant-cells, but found in the. Tunic at a among animals. It is di olved by Schweitzer's reagent (ammonium-cupric-oxid) and decomposed by several forms of bacteria, e.g., Bacillus butyric us, Prazmowski; Bacterium gummis, Comes, and Bacterium put red in is, Davaine. To stain. Use Grenadier's Alcoholic Borax-Carmin, Ehrlich's or Del a field'l Hematoxylin, Methyl-Green, Methylene-Blue, Safra nin, Fuchsin, Chlor. Zinc, Iodin, Phloroglucin, Anilin, Chlorid. See, also, Carbohydrates, Table of.