Webster’s Reagent

Chemical Cellulose White fibers, consisting mostly of alpha-cellulose, obtained from vegetable matter(such as wood or cotton linters) by treatment with sulfite dilute NaOH soln or other reagent. Material obtained by treatment of cotton linters with dilute NaOH is also known as chemical cotton (See also CELLULOSE AND DERIVATIVES) Ref Merriam-Webster s(196l), 360 384... 

Refs l)Colver(1918), 234-36(Color reaction with NaOH or NH9 solns of nitroderivs of benzene, toluene, naphthalene, etc a table) 2)E. Elvove, IEC II, 860-64(1919) [Modification of Webster s test for colorimetric detn of TNT in urea, described in BritMedJ 2, 845(1916). Instead of using Webster s KOH soln, Elvove proposed to use Griess Reagent(qv)] 3)H.W. 

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