You made a polymer! A polymer is a huge molecule made up of smaller molecules joined together. If those small molecules are sugars, the polymer is called a polysaccharide. Sodium alginate is a ...

Cut and mixed with water to make a thick gel. Diluted with more water and filtered. Mixture evaporated and further processed to make sodium alginate powder.

THE selective inhibition of radiostrontium uptake by rats following the administration of doses of sodium alginate has been reported recently 1–3. We have performed a similar experiment with a ...