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Celluloid vs Acetate - What's the difference?

celluloid | acetate |

As nouns the difference between celluloid and acetate

is that celluloid is celluloid while acetate is .

celluloid

English

Noun

(wikipedia celluloid) (-)
  • Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
  • * 1894 June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, , Volume 48, Issue 2,
  • Then followed some experiments with drums, over which sheets of sensitized celluloid film were drawn, the edges being pressed into a narrow slot in the surface, similar in construction to the old tin-foil phonograph.
  • * 1910 , ,
  • "And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."
  • (figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.
  • * 2001' August 14, Riki Wilchins, ''Gender on '''celluloid'' , in '' , page 26.
  • * 2004 , Preston Whaley, Blows Like a Horn , page 20,
  • In particular, they set Kerouac and Ginsberg to the specifications of an emergent superficial form—celluloid antiheroes—attractive to those in want of adventure and who would soon be reading On the Road (1957).

    See also

    * cell * cellophane * cellular * cellule * cellulose * cellulite * cellulitis * Galalith * photographic film * xylonite

    acetate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of acetic acid.
  • cellulose acetate
  • A transparent sheet used for overlays.
  • A disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
  • Synonyms

    * (salt or ester of acetic acid) ethanoate