viscose
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koʊs noun
1.
a viscous solution prepared by treating cellulose with caustic soda and carbon bisulfide: used in manufacturing regenerated cellulose fibers, sheets, or tubes, as rayon or cellophane.
2.
viscose rayon.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. a viscous orange-brown solution obtained by dissolving cellulose in sodium hydroxide and carbon disulphide. It can be converted back to cellulose by an acid, as in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane |
| b. (as modifier): viscose rayon | |
| 2. | rayon made from this material |
| —adj | |
| 3. | another word for viscous |
| [C19: from Late Latin viscōsus full of birdlime, sticky, from viscum birdlime; see | |
| viscous or viscose (ˈvɪskəs) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (of liquids) thick and sticky; viscid |
| 2. | having or involving viscosity |
| [C14: from Late Latin viscōsus; see | |
| viscose or viscose | |
| —adj | |
| [C14: from Late Latin viscōsus; see | |
| 'viscously or viscose | |
| —adv | |
| 'viscousness or viscose | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
But shorts of ribbed cotton, viscose, rayon or silk are increasingly popular.
The spin bath in which viscose is extruded is composed of sulfuric acid, sodium sulfate and zinc sulfate.
It is made of viscose, a nonwoven material that can soak up enormous amounts of moisture, then be wrung out and reused.
Viscose solution is pumped to the spinning machine in the fiber department.
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