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Definition of Pyroxyline
1. Noun. Highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers.
Generic synonyms: Cellulose Nitrate, Guncotton, Nitrocellulose, Nitrocotton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyroxyline
Literary usage of Pyroxyline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Organic Chemistry: Adapted for the Use of Manufacturers, Chemists by Samuel Philip Sadtler (1912)
"A special grade of pyroxyline for the manufacture of collodion, put upon the
market by the Schering factory in Berlin, is made by immersing cotton for ..."
2. A Treatise on Photography by William de Wiveleslie Abney (1881)
"When little or no water is added, the pyroxyline gives an unevenly flowing
collodion which is strongly contractile when drying. When a large proportion of ..."
3. A Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry Adapted for the Use of by Samuel Philip Sadtler (1895)
"pyroxyline.—This in most physical characters resembles perfectly the explosive
... pyroxyline VARNISHES.—In recent years a very important class of metal ..."
4. The Techno-chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts by William Theodore Brannt, William Henry Wahl (1886)
"To convert the pyroxyline iuto celluloid, 42 to 50 parts of camphor are intimately
... The celluloid is made incombustible by washing the pyroxyline in a ..."
5. First Principles of Chemistry by Benjamin Silliman (1859)
"... pyroxyline.—The action of strong nitric acid upon starch yields a compound
... gives rise to an interesting substance, which has been named pyroxyline, ..."
6. First Principles of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges and Schools by Benjamin Silliman (1848)
"... given a little more oxygen and hydrogen than the formula requires. pyroxyline,
when pure, is soluble in the acetic ethers of alcohol and wood-spirit. ..."
7. Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1850)
"This is pyroxyline, the gun-cotton of Professor Schoenbein. ... pyroxyline appear
to be substitution-compounds, in which the elements of nitric acid replace ..."
8. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals: Comprising Electro by Georg Langbein (1909)
"The appearance of rainbow colors upon objects lacquered with pyroxyline lacquer
is due either to insufficient cleanliness, especially to the presence of ..."
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