1) Cellulose ester 2) Cellulose nitrate 3) Explosive concoction 4) Nitrate 5) Nitrocellulose 6) Nitrocotton 1) Nitrate 2) Nitrocellulose 3) Nitrocotton 4) Pyrocellulose 5) Pyroxylin 6) Pyroxyline 
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(from the article `Schönbein, Christian Friedrich`) German chemist who discovered and named ozone (1840) and was the first to describe guncotton (nitrocellulose). His teaching posts included one at ... If cotton is treated until almost all of the cellulose molecules` hydroxyl groups have been esterified but the molecules` structure...
Gun'cot`ton See under Gun . 
a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.