Usually means: Flammable compound used in explosives.
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  1. nitrocellulose: Merriam-Webster
  2. nitrocellulose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nitrocellulose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nitrocellulose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nitrocellulose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nitrocellulose, nitrocellulose: Wordnik
  7. nitrocellulose: Wiktionary
  8. nitrocellulose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nitrocellulose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nitrocellulose: Dictionary.com
  11. Nitrocellulose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nitrocellulose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nitrocellulose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. nitrocellulose: Rhymezone
  15. Nitrocellulose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. nitrocellulose: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nitrocellulose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. nitrocellulose: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nitrocellulose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nitrocellulose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. nitrocellulose: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nitrocellulose: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nitrocellulose)

noun:  (organic chemistry) A cotton-like material, made from cellulose by the action of nitric and sulphuric acids, used in the manufacture of explosives, collodion etc.

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