Nitrocellulose plastic

M55 rockets pose the greatest storage risk because they contain approximately 20 pounds of M28 propellant, a double-base propellant composed of nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plasticizers, a bum-rate modifier, and a stabilizer. The exact composition is given in Table 1-4. The propellant slowly decomposes exother-... 

Castable Metallic Illuminant Fuel Containing a Nitrocellulose Plasticized Binder , USP 3715248... 

Triphenylphosphate is a colorless, odorless, crystalline solid (mp, 49°C bp, 245°C). It is moderately toxic. A similar, but much more toxic, compound is tri-o-cresyl-phosphate (TOCP), an aryl phosphate ester with a notorious record of poisonings.3 Before its toxicity was fully recognized, TOCP was a common contaminant of commercial tricresylphosphate. Tricresylphos-phate is an industrial chemical with numerous applications and consists of a mixture of phosphate esters in which the hydrocarbon moieties are meta and para cresyl substituents. It has been used as a lubricant, gasoline additive, flame retardant, solvent for nitrocellulose, plasticizer, and even a cooling fluid for machine guns. Although modem commercial tricresylphosphate contains less than 1% TOCP, contaminant levels of up to 20% in earlier products have resulted in severe poisoning incidents. 

It is noted that camphor is not a hydrocarbon, but contains one oxygen atom, its formula being CjoHieO. A hydrocarbon is obtained by re placing the oxygen atom by two hydrogen atoms, producing the sub-stance called camphane. Camphor is used in medicine and in the manufacture of plastics. Ordinary celluloid consists of nitrocellulose plasticized with camphor. 

Use Chemicals (amyl ether, amyl acetate, pure amyl alcohols, nitrous ether, various esters), explosives (gelatinizing agent), solvent for fats and oils, intermediate, pharmaceuticals, nitrocellulose plastics, synthetic rubber, varnishes, lacquers, solvent for resins and waxes, perfumery. 

Solid propellants include nitrocellulose plasticized with nitroglycerin or varous phthalates and inorganic salts suspended in a plastic or synthetic rubber... 

Use Solvent for nitrocellulose, plasticizer, lacquers, coating compositions. 

Isopropyl acetate is used as a solvent for nitrocellulose, plastics, oils, and fats, and as a flavoring agent. 

Nitration, the addition of the nitro group (-NO2) to a compound, is one of the most important commercial reactions used during the manufacture of dyes, fertilizers, explosives (e.g., nitrocellulose), plastics, etc. The principal nitrating agent is nitric acid (7697-37-2) which acts in a two stage process to generate the nitronium ion (N02 ) ... 

R.C. Warren, The effect of aging and annealing on the physical properties of nitrocellulose plasticized with nitroglycerine. Polymer 31 (1990) 861-868. 

Chem. Descrip. Hydroabietyl alcohol CAS 1333-89-7 EINECS/ELINCS 247-574-0 Uses Plasticizer, tackifier for nat. and syn. rubber, nitrocellulose, plastics, lacquers, inks, coatings, and pressure-sensitive, emulsion, solv.. 

Uses Lubricant for rubber molds, textile fibers, metalworking fluids in foods and food pkg. humectant, solvent in cosmetics hair preps. in gas chromatography in lacquers paints paper coatings polishes solvent for nitrocellulose plasticizer binder in ceramic pastes, print-... 

Cellophane is used as a general protective wrapping material. Because of its good electrical properties, it is used in wire and cable construction and other electrical products. It also functions as a separator, barrier, or release film in plastic molding and lamination. To make it moisture proof, most of the cellophane film is coated with a lacquer composed of nitrocellulose, plasticizers, resins, and waxes. This coating can also give the cellophane film a heat-sealing property. 

Early plasticizer technology focused on nitrocellulose materials. In the mid-I850s, Alexander Parkes developed a new nitrocellulose plastic using various oils to make the brittle polymer pliable. Parkes and then later one of his colleagues, Daniel Spill, attempted to create a new plastic industry with this technology. Unfortunately they had made a poor choice in using castor oil as the plasticizer, the oil exuded, and they were unable to produce materials with acceptable quality. A few years later, John Wesley Hyatt developed a process [2] for plasticization of nitrocellulose, leading to the successful commercialization of his plastic materials, which he called celluloid. This was the start of the plastic industry. 

Different additives are added to nail lacquers in order to fulfil the aforementioned cosmetic and technical qualities. For example, film formers are added, which are ingredients of the film that determine the principal cosmetic quality of the lacquer (nitrocellulose plasticizers such as dibutyl phthalate, camphor and citric acid esters resins). 

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