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gun⋅cot⋅ton

  [guhn-kot-n]
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–noun
a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
Origin:
1840–50; gun 1 + cotton
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gun·cot·ton   (gŭn'kŏt'n)   
n.  See nitrocellulose.
ni·tro·cel·lu·lose   (nī'trō-sěl'yə-lōs', -lōz')   
n.  A pulpy or cottonlike polymer derived from cellulose treated with sulfuric and nitric acids and used in the manufacture of explosives, collodion, plastics, and solid monopropellants. Also called guncotton, cellulose nitrate.
ni'tro·cel'lu·los'ic (-lō'sĭk, -zĭk) adj.
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Main Entry: gun·cot·ton
Pronunciation: 'g&n-"kät-&n
Function: noun
: any of various cellulose nitrates;especially : an explosive consisting of a higher-nitrated product (as one containing at least 13.2 percent nitrogen)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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