Sodium alginate, also called algin, is a salt of the natural polysaccharide alginic acid 1 that is found in brown algae (seaweed) in the class Phaeophyceae. Alginic acid was discovered in 1881 by ...

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Cass Sunstein is a Harvard Law School professor and one of the most cited legal scholars in the world. He founded the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School, served in ...