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What (who) is gun-cotton - definition
HIGHLY FLAMMABLE COMPOUND FORMED BY NITRATING CELLULOSE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO NITRIC ACID OR TO ANOTHER NITRATING AGENT
Gun cotton; Guncotton; Cellulose nitrate; Gun-cotton; Gun-Cotton; C6H8(NO2)2O5; Pyroxyline; Gun Cottont; Pyroxylin; Nitrate film; Flash paper; Nitro-cellulose; Flash Paper; Nitrocellulose film; Flash Paper (Nitrocellulose); Nitrocotton; Collodion cotton; Parlodion; Soluble guncotton; Nitrate film stock; Nitrate stock; Flash cotton; Mononitrocellulose; Dinitrocellulose; Trinitrocellulose; Pyroxilin
![[[Table tennis]] ball, prepared from nitrocellulose (Celluloid)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/40mm table tennis ball Celluloid.jpg?width=200 "[[Table tennis]] ball, prepared from nitrocellulose (Celluloid)")
![Decayed nitrate film, [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EYE Film Institute Netherlands - Nitrate film decay - 3.JPG?width=200 "Decayed nitrate film, [[EYE Film Institute Netherlands]]")
![[[Jam tin grenade]]s were made in [[World War I]] using gun cotton](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gws-jamtinbomb.jpg?width=200 "[[Jam tin grenade]]s were made in [[World War I]] using gun cotton")
![Lubin film vault]] custodian Stanley Lowry (foreground) surveys the rubble after fire and explosions, June 1914.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lubin employees surveying destruction of film vault, June 1914.jpg?width=200 "Lubin film vault]] custodian Stanley Lowry (foreground) surveys the rubble after fire and explosions, June 1914.")
gun-cotton
n.
Pyroxyline.
Guncotton
·- ·see under Gun.
nitrocellulose
¦ noun Chemistry a highly flammable material made by treating cellulose with concentrated nitric acid, used to make explosives and celluloid.
Wikipedia
Nitrocellulose
Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid. One of its first major uses was as guncotton, a replacement for gunpowder as propellant in firearms. It was also used to replace gunpowder as a low-order explosive in mining and other applications. In the form of collodion it was also a critical component in an early photographic emulsion, the use of which revolutionized photography in the 1860s.
Examples of use of gun-cotton
1. Multimedia extras introduce visitors to the environs above and below sea level with a 1'0' cityscape taken from across the Halifax Harbour, and animated surveys of the harbour‘s ‘topography.‘ Next, City of Ruins recounts the fatal collision on the morning of Dec. 6 between the relief ship, Imo, and the munitions–laden Mont Blanc – the latter carrying over 2,500 tons of benzol fuel, TNT, picric acid, and gun cotton. (The explosion threw one of the ship‘s gun barrels more than three miles inland, lifted a Navy tug entirely out of the water and onto a nearby pier, and drove a 60–foot wall of water over the Halifax shoreline.) Here, extras include profiles of the ships involved and a "historical docu–comic" paying tribute to the city‘s firefighters.