Whats Auroloid

[AD43]

is auroloid genuine celluloid or cellulose nitrate?

 

[AD43]

sorry, cellulose acetate, nitrate is real celluloid!

[praxim]

According to Richard Binder and a second-hand quotation from the Aurora web site both here on FPN, and also this review on penhabit.com, it is cellulose acetate.

 

You will also find some argument about your denotation of cellulose nitrate as "real" celluloid.

 

Hope this helps.

[Tweel]

You will also find some argument about your denotation of cellulose nitrate as "real" celluloid.

 

Perhaps testimony in the argument could be taken from John and Isaiah Hyatt. In 1872 they patented their process for producing cellulose nitrate plasticized with camphor, and designated it by the brand name that Isaiah dreamed up: "Celluloid".

[Croma]

Hello:

Perhaps It is an acrylic resin.

Regards.

[praxim]

Perhaps testimony in the argument could be taken from John and Isaiah Hyatt. In 1872 they patented their process for producing cellulose nitrate plasticized with camphor, and designated it by the brand name that Isaiah dreamed up: "Celluloid".

This is so, although as you presumably know it was not the first instance of the corresponding product but a patented improvement and branding. Still, I did not argue the name. I referred to the thread. I am mindful with regard to that disucssion that in the mid-19th century one was less apt to carelessly split infinitives. Grammar then changes and is grammar today. Substitute celluloid.

[Tweel]

Sorry, I did think you were promoting the argument rather than noting it. My response was a little tongue-in-cheek, but I am a stickler like Richard Binder. After all, it was a brand name for a specific material (I've always referred to cellulose acetate as "acetate", myself).

[fabri00]

It does not smell of camphor, so it should not be celluloid.