xylonite

noun

xylonite

noun

Etymology From an old trademark, presumably xylo- + -ite.

1

Obsolete Celluloid.

The youngest of the industries of Suffolk is the manufacture of xylonite.1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2:
A simple, effective shelf label-holder is made from strips of transparent xylonite bent in a rectangular form...1920, James Duff Brown, William Charles Berwick Sayers, Manual of library economy:

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[…] the perfumes and flavouring-substances, the explosives, the viscoses, celluloids, xylonites, bakelites, &c., […]1923, George Handley Knibbs, Presidential Address to the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science at the New Zealand Meeting, page 5:

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