acetate fibre

textile fibre

Also known as: acetate, acetate rayon

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In cellulose acetate
…known variously as acetate rayon, acetate, or triacetate. It can also be molded into solid plastic parts such as tool handles or cast into film for photography or food wrapping, though its use in these applications has diminished.
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In major industrial polymers: Cellulose acetate
…a commercial scale of the acetone-soluble material was accomplished by two Swiss brothers, Henri and Camille Dreyfus, who during World War I built a factory in England for the production of cellulose diacetate to be used as a nonflammable “dope” for coating fabric airplane wings. After the war, with no…
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