A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives.
Material of cellulose nitrate plasticized with camphor.
1An American inventor, John Wesley Hyatt, came up with celluloid, a cellulose nitrate compound, now commonly regarded as the first plastic.
2Cellulose itself cannot act as a food supply, and it seems probable that if glycerol is present cellulose nitrate is no longer made use of.
3(2) By treating the fibrous cellulose nitrates with liquid solvents of the high nitrate diluted with non-solvent liquids, and more especially water.
Translations for cellulose nitrate