nitrocellulose - nitric acid esters; used in lacquers and explosivescordite - explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords pyrocellulose - nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder pyroxylin, pyroxyline - highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers celluloid - highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics nitrate - any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) |