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Methods are described for the routine estimation in ground seaweed samples of mannitol by periodate oxidation, of alginic acid by isolation and the displacement of acetic acid from calcium acetate, of laminarin by hydrolysis to glucose and its estimation with the Shaffer‐Somogyi reagent, and of fucose (after hydrolysis) by periodatc oxidation and estimation of the liberated acetaldehyde.
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Cameron et al. (1948) studied this question.
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