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Pyroxylin

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Noun

1. pyroxylin, pyroxyline

highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers

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Pyroxylin

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noun
a yellow substance obtained by nitrating cellulose with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids; guncotton: used to make collodion, plastics, lacquers, and adhesives

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Pyroxylin

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noun
nitrocellulose, esp. in less highly nitrated and explosive forms than guncotton

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pyroxylin

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n.
See nitrocellulose.

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