Crossword-Solution: NITROCELLULOSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nitrocellulose | n. | See Gun cotton, under Gun. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “NITROCELLULOSE”
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| any of several esters of cellulose used especially for making explosives, plastics, and varnishes | 1 answer |
| cellulose nitrate | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NITROCELLULOSE (5)
This, then, might be called the beginning of the guncotton or nitrocellulose period--or, perhaps in deference to the caveman's club, the second cellulose period of human warfare.
Nobel's invention, "cordite," is composed of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose with a little mineral jelly or vaseline.
Besides cordite and similar mixtures of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose there are two other classes of high explosives in common use.
Dissolving nitrocellulose in ether and alcohol we get the collodion varnish that we are all familiar with since we have used it on our cut fingers.
Collodion, as I have explained in previous chapters, is a solution in ether and alcohol of guncotton (otherwise known as pyroxylin or nitrocellulose), which is made by the action of nitric acid on cotton.