Papyroxylin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of gun-paper. obsolete, uncountable

    "Gun-paper, or papyroxyline, is paper which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water."

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gun-paper

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"Gun-paper, or papyroxyline, is paper which has been immersed for a few seconds in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, and then washed in an abundance of water."

Etymology

From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + xylo- (“wood, wood pulp”) + -in (“forming substances made from living things”), after the model of earlier pyroxylin.

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