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What does pyroxylin mean?

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  1. (organic chemistry) A highly inflammable form of nitrocellulose; used in the manufacture of collodion and lacquers.
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The process of pyroxylin gunpowder production is a complex multiphase chemical engineering process.
To a saturated solution of tannic acid in alcohol and ether, in equal parts, add as much pyroxylin as the liquid will dissolve.
The silk referred to is made from a solution of that inflammable material of tremendous force known as gun-cotton, or pyroxylin.
These nitrates are variously known as nitrocellulose, pyroxylin, and gun cotton.
He tried mixing in various things to stiffen up the pyroxylin.
The base is a kind of guncotton called by chemists pyroxylin, which is mixed in wood alcohol.

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