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Celluloid vs Celloidin - What's the difference?

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Celluloid is a related term of celloidin.


As nouns the difference between celluloid and celloidin

is that celluloid is celluloid while celloidin is (biology) a semisolid solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol used to embed specimens for microscopy before they are sectioned and placed on slides.

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

    celloidin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A semisolid solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol. Used to embed specimens for microscopy before they are sectioned and placed on slides.
  • * {{quote-book, 1950, John Randal Baker, Cytological Technique citation
    • , passage=The celloidin will gradually change into a soft gel. }}
  • A specimen embedded in celloidin.
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Dolores Landy Bentham, chapter=Fresh Air, Still Going Strong, editor=Janet Weinberg citation
    • , passage=I will not cut the celloidins or check the bibliography for his book. }}

    Related terms

    * celloid * celluloid

    See also

    * collodion * colloidin

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