Nitrated cellulose is dissolved in a mixture of equal parts of alcohol and ether.
A smokeless powder composed of nearly equal parts of nitro-glycerine and nitrated cellulose, with a small quantity of diphenylamine.
No man can breathe the strangling fumes of nitric acid and nitrated glycerin without discomfort, and every man here must breathe them.
All the smokeless powders, of which gelatinized guncottons or nitrated celluloses are the base, are moulded into some conveniently shaped grain, e.
This statement appears to be correct for all kinds of nitrated cellulose powders, whether mixed with nitroglycerin or other substances.
In general the process consisted in forcing a thick solution of the nitrated cellulose through capillary glass tubes, the bore of which was less than the one-hundredth of a millimetre.
The nitrated gun-cotton or tonite signals now in general use are made up in 4 oz.
The most highlynitrated products appear blue in polarised light, but those containing between 13.
Hence the lower nitrates are generally used, or such compounds as nitro-lignose, nitrated wood, &c.
They are easily nitratedand sulphurated; mono, di, and tri derivatives are readily prepared, according to the strength of the acids used.
It is advisable to use the cellulosenitrated only just enough to render it suitable, in order to reduce the inflammability of the finished product.
Dr Lungé found the following process more satisfactory in the case of the more highly nitrated products:--The reagent is an alcoholic solution of sodium-ethylate prepared by dissolving 2 to 3 grms.
In some, however, nitro-lignose or nitrated wood is used instead.
First, instead of drying the nitrated cellulose, which often led to fires, &c.
When the total quantity of the nitrated solution added amounts to about half the bulk of the ferro-tartaric acid, it is enough.
If a piece of nitrated paper is placed upon hot iron, or held near the fire, it will be found that at a heat just below that at which the paper chars, the salt is decomposed.
The nitrocelluloses are all highly inflammable bodies, the more highly nitrated burning with explosive force.
The most highly nitrated body forms the basis of the explosive variety; the least highly nitrated forms that of the soluble gun cotton used for making collodion for photographic and other purposes.
In this country pure cellulose is commonly obtained from paper makers, in the form of tissue paper, in wide rolls; this, after being nitrated by a bath of mixed nitric and sulphuric acids, is thoroughly washed and partially dried.
The toluene is nitrated by mixed acid into either mono- or dinitrotoluene, which is then trinitrated.
This is then further nitrated into trinitrophenol or picric acid.
Cresylite is a French explosive, and contains picric acid and nitrated cresol.
This is nitrated into dinitrochlorbenzene, and is then treated with caustic soda to give dinitrophenol.
The phenol is sulphonated with strong sulphuric acid, and the phenol-sulphonic acid resulting is nitrated with strong nitric acid at about 100deg C.
The former is obtained by first acting upon glycerin with hydrogen chloride to produce u-chlorhydrin or chlor-propylene glycol, C3H7O2Cl, which is then nitrated as in the case of glycerin.
It is known as blasting gelatin, and was first made by Nobel by incorporating 6 or 7% of low nitrated cellulose (collodion cotton or soluble gun-cotton) with slightly warmed nitroglycerin.
To prevent nitroglycerin and some of the forms of dynamite from freezing it has been proposed to add to them small quantities of either monochlor-dinitroglycerin or of a nitrated poly-glycerin.
At the time these products were thought to be related to the nitrated starch obtained a little previously by Henri Braconnot and called xyloidin; they are only related in so far as they are nitrates.
Uchatius, in Austria, proposed a smokeless powder made from nitrated starch, but it was not adopted owing to its hygroscopic nature and also its tendency to detonate.
The nitrated product retains the outward form of the original cellulose.
Alkali sulphohydrates reduce guncotton, or othernitrated celluloses, completely to cellulose.
The so-called collodion cottons arenitrated celluloses, but of a lower degree of nitration (as a rule) than guncotton.
Taking the hint from mynitrated laundry, he nitrated a cotton handkerchief and sent it to the Chinese laundry with the rest of his wash.
For instance, they may be nitrated as described in previous articles and used for making smokeless powder or celluloid.
The thread of nitrated cellulose may be rendered less inflammable by taking out the nitrate groups by treatment with ammonium or calcium sulfide.
Nitrated wood cellulose has long been used for the manufacture of smokeless powders for shot-guns, and during the War the Germans made powders for rifled fire-arms from it.
The only other form of cellulose which is nitrated on a commercial scale is “chemical cellulose” obtained by the treatment of wood or straw.
A mixture of ammonium perchlorate and nitrated naphthalene, formerly used in coal mines.
It consists of ammonium nitrate, nitrated toluene and aluminium powder.
The acid which collects at the bottom of the tower is known as nitrated vitriol.
The nitrated vitriol is raised by compressed air to the top of the Glover tower, and as it trickles down over the flints in this tower it is diluted with water, while at the same time it meets the hot gases coming from the pyrites burners.
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