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Definition of Collodions
1. collodion [n] - See also: collodion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collodions
Literary usage of Collodions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"collodions. UNDER this head are recognized in the Pharmacopoeia and National ...
collodions are employed only for external medication, and owing to the very ..."
2. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"The collodions are solutions in Ether-Alcohol of Pyroxylin or Soluble Gun Cotton.
Upon evaporation of the solvent the remaining film excludes the air, ..."
3. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"Photographic collodions. By "collodion" is to be understood in this ... No mention
is made as to whether the collodions prepared from the above that ..."
4. Handbook of Pharmacy by Virgil Coblentz (1895)
"The medicated collodions consist of collodion impregnated with medicinal ...
Because of the volatile nature of the ether, the collodions should be kept in ..."
5. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"CHAPTER XIII ELIXIRS, GLYCERITES, collodions, AND OLEATES ELIXIRS ELIXIRS are
hydro-alcoholic solutions of medicinal substances containing *ugar. ..."
6. Practical Pharmacy: A Description of the Machinery, Appliances and Methods by Edward William Lucas (1908)
"... collodions Collodion is a solution of pyroxylin (di-nitrocellulose) in a
mixture of alcohol and ether. It is principally employe^ in surgical practice. ..."
7. Essentials of Materia Medica Pharmacy and Prescription Writing: Arranged in by Edwin A Heller (1897)
"... ^gun-cotton)which rapidly evaporate when applied to Collodium (collodions).—Solutions
of (ether) in the skin, forming a translucent film containing the ..."