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dinitrocellulose

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance, analogous to guncotton, but differing from it in being soluble in alcohol and ether, produced by the action of a mixture of sulphuric and nitric acids on cotton. Collodion is a solution of this substance in ether and alcohol. Also called soluble pyroxylin.

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