Chapter III · —NITRO-CELLULOSE, &C.
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Cellulose Properties—Discovery of Gun-Cotton—Properties of Gun-Cotton— Varieties of Soluble and Insoluble Gun-Cottons—Manufacture of Gun-Cotton— Dipping and Steeping—Whirling Out the Acid—Washing, Boiling, Pulping, Compressing—The Waltham Abbey Process—Le Bouchet Process—Granulation of Gun-Cotton—Collodion-Cotton—Manufacture—Acid Mixture Used—Cotton Used, &c.—Nitrated Gun-Cotton—Tonite—Dangers in Manufacture of Gun-Cotton— Trench's Fire-Extinguishing Compound—Uses of Collodion-Cotton—Celluloid— Manufacture, &c.—Nitro-Starch, Nitro-Jute, and Nitro-Mannite