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Definition of Pyroxylin
1. Noun. Highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers.
Generic synonyms: Cellulose Nitrate, Guncotton, Nitrocellulose, Nitrocotton
Definition of Pyroxylin
1. n. A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; -- called also pyroxyle.
Definition of Pyroxylin
1. Noun. (organic compound) A highly inflammable form of nitrocellulose; used in the manufacture of collodion and lacquers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pyroxylin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyroxylin
Literary usage of Pyroxylin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"THE peculiar form in which pyroxylin is deposited from its ether-alcohol ...
Later English experimenters made attempts to use pyroxylin as the base for an ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"The Hirtenberg pyroxylin itself exploded in the magazine at Simmering, and in
the investigation made July 31, 1862, it was merely decided that the accident ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"pyroxylin for the preparation of Collodion. It has already been stated that the
highest nitro-substitution product of cotton, ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"pyroxylin stowed away in casks iu a dry place evolved a choking smell after 3£
... J— pyroxylin, prepared in 1847, crumbled to powder with evolution of red ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"The solution of pyroxylin in a mixture of ether and alcohol is known under the
name of ... leaving the pyroxylin as a transparent membranous pellicle. ..."
6. Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1855)
"This ia pyroxylin, the gun-col ton of Professor Schoenbein. ... and pyroxylin
appear to the substitution-compounds, in •which the elements of ..."
7. Industrial Chemistry, for Engineering Students by Henry Kreitzer Benson (1913)
"pyroxylin COMPOSITIONS In the discussion of explosive materials (Chapter XVII)
... The use of pyroxylin in artificial silk manufacture is referred to below. ..."
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