PREFERRED TERM
Viscose
DEFINITION
- n. a viscous orange-brown solution obtained by dissolving cellulose in sodium hydroxide and carbon disulphide. It can be converted back to cellulose by an acid, as in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
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IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Viscose
French
Viscosa
Italian
raion
rayon
Viscosa
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/529
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