pyroxylin
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pyroxylin
1830–40; pyro- + xyl- ( def. ) + -in 2
Example Sentences
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Such a finish very likely will be a compound embracing the good qualities of both the old style varnish and the newer pyroxylin finishes.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may interest you to know that all the important manufacturers of automobile finishing materials are making pyroxylin lacquers.
From Time Magazine Archive
No. i innovation are Wurlitzer consoles finished in "Kordevon," a cloth covered with ten coats of the plastic, pyroxylin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cell′uloid, a hard elastic compound used for ivory, obtained by hydraulic pressure from pyroxylin, mixed with camphor, &c.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The best is one which I use, made of pyroxylin, the soluble cotton of commerce, dissolved in amyl acetate and acetone with some other substances that make it perfectly sterile.
From The War Terror by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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