pyroxyle Chem.
(paɪˈrɒksɪl)
Also erron. -ile.
[a. F. pyroxyle, f. Gr. πυρ(ο- pyro- + ξύλον wood (Pelouze, 1846; Comptes Rendus 23, 893).]
= pyroxylin: chiefly as the Fr. name of gun-cotton.
| 1847 [see pyroxylin 2]. 1870 Echo 8 Nov., A chemical manufactory at Grenelle blew to pieces, with four men, who were making pyroxile for the Government. 1881 tr. Verne's Myst. Isl. iii. 55 Our guns would bear..the expansion of the pyroxile gas. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 4/3 The heavy rains..hindered the pyroxyle from acting as the conspirators designed. |