Word Meanings - NITROGELATIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.

• Explosively
  In an explosive manner.
• Nitroglycerin
  A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence
• Camphoraceous
  Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.
• CAMPHORATECAMPORATED
  Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.
• COTTONBATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• COTTONSEEDCOTTONSEED
  The seed of the cotton plant.
• Cottonwood
  An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

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