A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives.
Material of cellulose nitrate plasticized with camphor.
1 An American inventor, John Wesley Hyatt, came up with celluloid, a cellulose nitrate compound, now commonly regarded as the first plastic.
2 Cellulose 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.
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