Xylonite vs. Celluloid — What's the Difference?

(obsolete) Celluloid.

Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents. Once much more common for its use as photographic film before the advent of safer methods, celluloid's common contemporary uses are table tennis balls, musical instruments, combs, office equipment, and guitar picks.

See Zylonite.

A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.

Motion-picture film

The cinema; motion pictures

Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.

Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.

Artificial; synthetic

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

The genre of cinema; film.

(obsolete) An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.

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.

Highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics

A medium that disseminates moving pictures;

Artificial as if portrayed in a film;