| The base is a kind of guncotton called by chemists pyroxylin, which is mixed in wood alcohol. |
| A motion-picture film is a thin ribbon of transparent pyroxylin plastic or nitrocellulose, which is highly inflammable. |
| These nitrates are variously known as nitrocellulose, pyroxylin, and gun cotton. |
| The process of pyroxylin gunpowder production is a complex multiphase chemical engineering process. |
| Ultrathin sections of approximately 90 nm were picked up on 200 mesh grids which had been pyroxylin and carbon-coated. |
| The silk referred to is made from a solution of that inflammable material of tremendous force known as gun-cotton, or pyroxylin. |
