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    Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable...
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    called simply lacquer, which consists of synthetic polymers (such as nitrocellulose, cellulose acetate butyrate ("CAB"), or acrylic resin) dissolved in...
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  • Rayon (redirect from Nitrocellulose rayon)
    Related materials are not regenerated cellulose, but esters of cellulose. Nitrocellulose is a derivative of cellulose that is soluble in organic solvents. It...
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  • A nitrocellulose slide (or nitrocellulose film slide) is a glass microscope slide that is coated with nitrocellulose that is used to bind biological material...
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  • Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents. Once much more common for its...
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    in 1884 by Paul Vieille, the most common formulations are based on nitrocellulose, but the term was also used to describe various picrate mixtures with...
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    fragments are transferred to a solid membrane which is either nylon or nitrocellulose membrane they are first denatured by alkaline treatment. After the DNA...
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    Indigo carmine, or 5,5′-indigodisulfonic acid sodium salt, is an organic salt derived from indigo by aromatic sulfonation, which renders the compound soluble...
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    Collodion is a flammable, syrupy solution of nitrocellulose in ether and alcohol. There are two basic types: flexible and non-flexible. The flexible type...
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    marketed as spherical powder by Hodgdon Powder Company) is a form of nitrocellulose used in small arms cartridges. Ball propellant can be manufactured more...
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    grain gelatinised by ether alcohol. It had coarser grains than other nitrocellulose powders. It proved unsuitable for rifles, but it remained in long use...
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    quantities: 130  as the plasticizer that creates celluloid from nitrocellulose, in nitrocellulose lacquers and other plastics and lacquers. Camphor has been...
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    dissolved in a volatile organic solvent. The most common polymer is nitrocellulose, although the more expensive cellulose acetates such as CAB are claimed...
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    followed by an electrophoretic transfer onto a membrane (mostly PVDF or nitrocellulose) and an immunostaining procedure to visualize a certain protein on the...
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  • explosives, originally manufactured by DuPont. Its ingredients are PETN with nitrocellulose and a binder. It was manufactured in thin flexible sheets with a rubbery...
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  • Ballistite is a smokeless propellant made from two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was developed and patented by Alfred Nobel in...
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  • DuPont retained the single-base nitrocellulose powders, while Hercules held the double-base powders combining nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. DuPont subsequently...
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    (proteins, DNA or RNA) onto a carrier, such as a membrane composed of nitrocellulose, polyvinylidene fluoride or nylon. In many instances, this is done after...
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    these early propellants were largely replaced by smokeless powder of nitrocellulose or similarly nitrated organic compounds.: 287–330  The oldest gun propellant...
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    other electronic components. Most electrics have a polyurethane or nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Other alternative materials to wood are used in guitar...
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  • compounds (e.g. liquid DNT and small amount of NT) and nitrocellulose or butyl phthalate and nitrocellulose. One of the first reported and tested compositions...
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    construction, demolition, and mining industries. It is combined with nitrocellulose to form double-based smokeless powder, used as a propellant in artillery...
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    United States. They develop the thin-cast nitrocellulose biochip (aka: nitrocellulose slide, nitrocellulose film slide) and the modern hybridization and...
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    cylinder of the same material (the "target") by means of a charge of nitrocellulose propellant powder. Little Boy contained 64 kilograms (141 lb) of highly...
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    mineral jelly, while Rifleite was a true nitrocellulose powder, composed of soluble and insoluble nitrocellulose, phenyl amidazobense, and volatiles similar...
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  • Composition Percent by weight RDX plus nitrocellulose, calcium chloride and calcium silicate 40.4 ± 3% TNT 37.8 ± 3% Aluminum 17.1 ± 3% Wax plus lecithin...
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    Saltpeter Works Niter, a mineral form of potassium nitrate Nitratine Nitrocellulose Potassium perchlorate Record of Potassium nitrate in the GESTIS Substance...
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  • in the gel are then transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), nitrocellulose, nylon, or other support membrane. This membrane can then be probed...
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    used as a solvent for gums, resins, paints, varnishes, lacquers, and nitrocellulose. At laboratory scale, MIBK can be produced via a three-step process...
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    Uzbekistan significantly increased its exports of cotton pulp and nitrocellulose to Russia, key components for the manufacture of explosives and gunpowder...
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