Wiktionary
cellulose nitrate
n. (context organic compound English) nitrocellulose.
WordNet
cellulose nitrate
n. nitric acid esters; used in lacquers and explosives [syn: nitrocellulose, guncotton, nitrocotton]
Usage examples of "cellulose nitrate".
I once made a tour of the Nevada Dice Company, watching with something close to reverence as the sixty-pound cellulose nitrate slabs, an inch thick, were cured and cut into cubes, slightly bigger than the finished size, hardened, buffed and drilled on all sides, a white resinous compound applied to the sunken dots with special brushes.