How to Use nitrocellulose in a Sentence
nitrocellulose
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This is mainly limited to the older celluloid ping-pong balls, which were traditionally made from nitrocellulose.
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Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
26 Feb. 2026
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In the Tianjin port, an initial explosion of nitrocellulose led to a much bigger detonation of eight hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate.
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Hazlitt,
23 Oct. 2024
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Plans call for producing key explosive materials such as nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
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Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Cotton linters—the short fibers left on cottonseed after ginning—can be processed into nitrocellulose, a highly volatile, nitrogen-rich material known as guncotton that’s used as a primary ingredient in solid rocket propellants for ballistic missiles.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Those materials include sodium perchlorate, ammonium perchlorate precursors and nitrocellulose, all key components in solid-fuel rocket motors.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
30 Dec. 2025
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Once operational, the site will be able to manufacture key energetic materials, including nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, process wetted nitroguanidine, and combine them into triple-base propellants for 155mm artillery charges.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Dec. 2025
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