What's the difference between celluloid and xylonite?

Celluloid


Definition:

  • (n.) A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
  • (2) Enjoying soup and celluloid, Gilliam little realised he had a year's arguing before Universal would release Brazil in America (on Christmas Day 1985).
  • (3) Abrams is currently shooting Star Wars: Episode VII on celluloid, and Nolan has been using film for his upcoming space drama, Interstellar.
  • (4) Methyl methacrylate completely dissolved specimens of celluloid tubes.
  • (5) The smoothest surface was obtained with celluloid strip and the most acceptable contour obtained with preformed matrix.
  • (6) As a fleeting glimpse of the Old Weird America of tent-shows and carnivals and rural backwardness that was long gone before anyone thought to commit it to celluloid.
  • (7) Based on Domscheit-Berg's own book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, it's being tipped as a celluloid document of Assange's meteoric rise into the public consciousness.
  • (8) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
  • (9) Close up on his mouth, screaming in horror, and the celluloid bursts into flames in disgust.
  • (10) Not since Daniel Craig emerged from the sea in those swimming trunks, has British masculinity been so out and proud on celluloid as it has been in Cooper's recent work.
  • (11) Adaptations Don Juan and The Corsair were both filmed in melodramatic black and white; the Byronic hero spawned a thousand celluloid imitations - Gabriel Byrne is convincingly Byronic as Byron in Ken Russell's hallucinogenic and slightly laughable Gothic (1986).
  • (12) Various instruments, such as paper or celluloid strips of platinum loops, can be used to collect the content of the gingival sulcus.
  • (13) All the samples were better than the group polimerized with celluloid matrix strip.
  • (14) A square of skin and panniculus carnosus measuring 200 mm2 was excised from the back of each animal, and the amount of wound contraction was determined by a computer program from the drawings on celluloid overlays done weekly.
  • (15) Women remained dramatically under-represented in 2013 despite films such as Hunger Games 2 and Gravity heralding a supposed banner year for female actors, the study, titled “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World”, found.
  • (16) Caps, made of lucite, celluloid, or metal, are used chiefly in Germany, and have the advantage of being left in place for days at a time.
  • (17) There's a film conceit that says that facts or reality don't really matter in the context of a coherent celluloid world.
  • (18) "The real speed comes from the cutters [editors] and what they do with the celluloid," he said.
  • (19) Commit Before digital animation took over, Japanese anime was made the old-fashioned way using paint on sheets of celluloid to create "cels".
  • (20) One of the best scenes in Saving Mr Banks shows Travers, played by Thompson, overwhelmed with horror to find that her LA hotel room has been stuffed with soft cuddly toys from the Disney Corporation's celluloid bestiary, including Winnie-the-Pooh.

Xylonite


Definition:

  • (n.) See Zylonite.

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