Patches to tents were attached by means of a nitrocellulose cement, the best cement for the purpose which the salvage service found, being called vanite.
One of these dopes was nitrate in character and was made from nitrocellulose and certain wood-chemical solvents including alcohol.
In fact, it would be impossible to use a smokeless powder made of pure nitrocellulose in big guns without the multi-perforations.
For ballistite the nitrocellulose is beaten up with nitroglycerine in water.
When cotton is plentiful, nitrocellulose is made as follows.
An actual analysis of a sample of gelatine dynamite gave the following result:-- Nitrocellulose (collodion) 3.
Celluloid is a mixture of nitrocelluloseand camphor.
Collodion is a solution of nitrocellulose in a mixture of alcohol and ether.
A gelatinised nitrocellulose powder intended for use in rifles.
Some contain also nitroglycerine, and are then called nitroglycerine powders, whereas those that do not contain this substance are termed nitrocellulose powders.
A nitrocellulose smokeless powder formerly made in Sweden by the Société Grakrut.
These are all nitrocellulose powders with or without moderants.
The nitration is not carried so far as to produce the guncotton used in explosives but only far enough to make a soluble nitrocellulose or pyroxylin.
Dissolving nitrocellulose in ether and alcohol we get the collodion varnish that we are all familiar with since we have used it on our cut fingers.
Besides cordite and similar mixtures of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose there are two other classes of high explosives in common use.
If instead of glycerin we take cellulose in the form of wood pulp or cotton and treat this with nitric acid in the presence of sulfuric we get nitrocellulose or guncotton, which is the chief ingredient of smokeless powder.
Nobel's invention, "cordite," is composed of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose with a little mineral jelly or vaseline.
The adhesive property of nitrocellulose solutions is probably stronger than that of any other material, but, unfortunately, the tough film they form on drying does not grip a greasy surface.
Flesh splits of hides are simply stuck together with a collodion or nitrocellulose solution.
In recent years progress has been made toward the partial substitution of linseed oil by a nitrocellulose base in the preparation of the cement.
In addition, much linoleum now has a surface coat of nitrocellulose composition, which gives it a glossy surface practically non-markable and highly resistant to strong soaps and soda.
Such 'smokeless powder' is prepared either from the varieties ofnitrocellulose (Chapter VI.
In Table I will be found some important constants for the nitrocellulose fibre; also the fibre after denitration and the comparative constants for natural silk.
Even the most perfectly purified nitrocellulose will slowly decompose with formation of unstable acid products by boiling for a long time in water.
On exposure to air, nitrohydrocellulose becomes yellow and decomposes; nitro-oxycellulose is rather more stable, whilst nitrocellulose is unaffected.
The latter also, when distilled with hydrochloric acid, yields a larger proportion of furfuraldehyde than is obtained from nitrocellulose and nitrohydrocellulose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nitrocellulose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
