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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:food packaging gas
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Definition:A food additive that is a (generally inert) gas which is used to envelop foodstuffs during packing and so protect them from unwanted chemical reactions such as food spoilage or oxidation during subsequent transport and storage. The term includes propellant gases, used to expel foods from a container.
Synonyms:related_synonym: food packaging gases
 xref: Wikipedia:Packaging_gas



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      CHEBI ontology 19874
        role 19844
          application 19689
            food additive 16831
              food packaging gas 4023
                argon(0) 0
                carbon dioxide 25
                dihydrogen + 20
                dinitrogen 21
                dinitrogen oxide 8
                dioxygen + 4000
                helium(0) 0
                octafluorocyclobutane 0
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      CHEBI ontology 19874
        role 19844
          biological role 19842
            physiological role 19841
              food component 19841
                food additive 16831
                  food packaging gas 4023
                    argon(0) 0
                    carbon dioxide 25
                    dihydrogen + 20
                    dinitrogen 21
                    dinitrogen oxide 8
                    dioxygen + 4000
                    helium(0) 0
                    octafluorocyclobutane 0
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