How to pronounce “nitrocellulose” in English

of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose.

By adding 10 to 20 times more nitrocellulose than a gelignite, he transformed it from a jelly into a tougher substance, one that could be rolled into pasta thin sheets in Italy.

See, nitrocellulose has these chains that are very similar to nitroglycerin chemically because of the nitro groups.

If you mix in just a small amount of nitrocellulose, you get a stable moldable gel that resists sweating.

We're take a little bit of the nitrocellulose, a gun cotton like this much.

So he began experimenting with a new nitroglycerin nitrocellulose mixture.

And because the fuel was a combination of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, both of which broke down into clear, stable gases, it burned with little smoke.

It's called gun cotton or nitrocellulose.

- And now when you mix them, the smaller nitroglycerin molecules slip between these long nitrocellulose chains, trapping the nitroglycerin molecules and keeping them apart.