Nitrocellulose
Uses
- Nitrocellulose with high nitrogen content (commonly known as guncotton) is used to manufacture smokeless powder;Nitrocellulose with low nitrogen content (commonly known as collodion cotton) is employed in producing lacquers, artificial leather, photographic film, plastics, and related products.
- Used in stationery manufacturing, daily consumer goods, and instrument labeling systems.
- Used in printing inks, leather processing, nitrocellulose lacquers, sealing caps for bottles, and stencil papers for typewriters.
- Used in the pharmaceutical industry, for photographic base films, camera negatives, and leather tanning processes.
- Used as an embedding agent in microtechniques, for biological tissue sectioning, and as an adhesive binder in the electronics industry.