n :  any of several nonreducing water-soluble low-molecular-weight polysaccharides formed by cultivation of a bacterium of the genus Bacillus (B. macerans) upon starch solutions
 
Schardinger, Franz (fl 1902), Austrian biochemist. Schardinger discovered xanthine oxidase in 1902.
 
 
 
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