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pyroxylin

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Noun

HYPHEN

py=rox=y=lin

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pyroxylin has 1 sense

pyroxylin(n = noun.substance) pyroxyline - highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers; Array

is a kind of cellulose nitrate, guncotton, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pyroxylin, 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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pyroxylin, n. a form of nitrocellulose, soluble in ether and alcohol, used as a basis for lacquers, artificial leather, etc.

Etymology

F pyroxyline (as PYRO-, Gk xulon wood)

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