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Definition of Nitrocotton

1. Noun. A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrocotton

Literary usage of Nitrocotton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"Sulfate (SO3) in nitrocotton. It is well known that nitro- cottons, even after thoroughly washing with water, usually retain a small quantity of sulfur ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Blasting gelatin was first experimented with on the large scale in Austria, and the usual proportion there is 7 pc nitrocotton to 93 pc nitroglycerin. ..."

3. Treatise on General and Industrial Organic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1921)
"The nitrocotton remaining in the press is extracted by means of a counter-piston, which forces it upwards in cakes impregnated with 10 to 11 kilos of ..."

4. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"nitrocotton.—-A chemical combination of ordinary cotton fiber with nitric acid. It is explosive, highly inflammable, and in certain degree of nitration, ..."

5. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"nitrocotton.—A chemical combination of ordinary cotton fiber with nitric acid. It is explosive, highly inflammable, and in certain degree of nitration, ..."

6. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"nitrocotton.—A chemical combination of ordinary cotton fiber with nitric acid. It is explosive, highly inflammable, and in certain degree of nitration, ..."

7. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1900)
"... tated nitrocotton is dried on the filter, then detached from it, ... dried again to constant weight, and weighed for the percentage of nitrocotton. ..."

8. A Short Account of Explosives by Arthur Marshall (1917)
"In 1882 WF Reid and D. Johnson took out a patent for a powder consisting of grains of nitrocotton hardened by treatment with a solvent, ether-alcohol, ..."

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