Chapter 3

Cellulose Properties--Discovery of Gun-Cotton--Properties of Gun-Cotton-- Varieties of Soluble and Insoluble Gun-Cottons--Manufacture of Gun-Cotton-- Dipping and Steeping—Whirling Out the Acid--Washing, Boiling, Pulping, Compressing--The Waltham Abbey Process--Le Bouchet Process--Granulation of Gun-Cotton--Collodion-Cotton--Manufacture--Acid Mixture Used--Cotton Used, &c.--Nitrated Gun-Cotton--Tonite--Dangers in Manufacture of Gun-Cotton-- Trench's Fire-Extinguishing Compound--Uses of Collodion-Cotton--Celluloid-- Manufacture, &c.--Nitro-Starch, Nitro-Jute, and Nitro-Mannite