NITROCELLULOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrocellulose mean? 

• NITROCELLULOSE (noun)
  The noun NITROCELLULOSE has 1 sense:

1. a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives

  Familiarity information: NITROCELLULOSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROCELLULOSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

cellulose nitrate; guncotton; nitrocellulose; nitrocotton

Hypernyms ("nitrocellulose" is a kind of...):

cellulose ester (any ester of cellulose with an acid)

nitrate (any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nitrocellulose"):

pyrocellulose (nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder)

pyroxylin; pyroxyline (highly flammable nitrocellulose used in making collodion and plastics and lacquers)

Holonyms ("nitrocellulose" is a substance of...):

blasting gelatin (mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin)

cordite (explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords)

celluloid (highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics)

 Context examples 

The product of this reaction is then applied to a nitrocellulose test strip containing complementary DNA probes.

(Line Probe Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

Detection of RNA that has been electrophoretically separated and immobilized by blotting on nitrocellulose or other type of paper or nylon membrane.

(Northern Blotting, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

RNA extracted from a sample was denatured and separated by slab gel electrophoresis, then blotted on to a nitrocellulose or nylon sheet and hybridized with labeled DNA or RNA that is complementary to the desired RNA, whose presence is subsequently indicated by autoradiography or other visualization techniques.

(Northern Blotting, NCI Thesaurus)