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Acetate   /ˈæsətˌeɪt/   Listen
Acetate

noun
1.
A salt or ester of acetic acid.  Synonym: ethanoate.
2.
A fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate.  Synonym: acetate rayon.



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"Acetate" Quotes from Famous Books



... learned lord, or Tomkins aforesaid, or whoever may have been the inditer of the epistle ad Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the narcotine of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of eau-de-vie. Tomkins is quite right: no man, admitted by whatever door, or ascending by whatever staircase, to the salons of the great, fails to be impressed with the idea that there exists among what ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various



Words linked to "Acetate" :   sugar of lead, rayon, salt, acetin



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