Cellonn.
/ˈsɛlɒn/, U.S. /ˈsɛlɑn/ A commercial preparation of cellulose acetate, used mainly for plastic sheets and films, and in solution as a lacquer or water-repellent fabric finish.
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cellulose1876
soda cellulose1890
cellulose acetate1895
acetate1911
Cellon1911
cellophane1912
cellulosic1946
1911 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 30 413/2 The cellulose acetates have hitherto been devoid of gelatinising power, but the author has now succeeded..in producing cellulose acetate solutions which readily gelatinise, and render it possible to produce workable plastic masses such as ‘Cellon’ and ‘Sicoid’.
1934 Archit. Rev. 75 12/2 As a constructivist painter Moholy-Nagy was the first to use new synthetic materials like galalith, trolith and cellon.
1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral iv. 95 Gunnar..scrambled back down the fuselage to the wireless position, where there was a cellon window.
1994 D. J. Whitehouse Handbk. Surface Metrol. iv. 441 Typical films are cellon or acetyl cellulose.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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