guncotton
Kelime Anlamı :
1. pamuk barutu.
2. PAMUK BARUTU: Pamuğu; nitrik asit ve sülfürik asit ile muamele ederek yapılan infilak maddesi. Pamuk barutu; bazı mermilerde ve elektrikli ateşleme tertibatında, alevi infilak maddesine ulaştırmakta kullanıldığı gibi, yüksek kaliteli bazı dumansız barutların yapılmasında da kullanılır. Pamuk barutu; içinde çok miktarda azot bulunan bir nitro selülozdur. Buna (nitro cotton) da denir. Bak. "nitrocellulose".
Tanımlar :
1.
see under gun.
2. a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. it burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. see pyroxylin, and cf. Xyloidin. the gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. see celluloid, and collodion. gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. it is not a nitro compound, but an ester of nitric acid.
2. a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. it burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. see pyroxylin, and cf. Xyloidin. the gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. see celluloid, and collodion. gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. it is not a nitro compound, but an ester of nitric acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English