Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cellulose_nitrate
1 sense of cellulose nitrate
Sense 1
cellulose nitrate, nitrocellulose, guncotton, nitrocotton -- (a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives)
=> cellulose ester -- (any ester of cellulose with an acid)
=> nitrate -- (any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid))