viscose

A thick, golden-brown viscous solution of cellulose xanthate, used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane.

Viscose rayon.

Viscous.

Of, relating to, or made from viscose.

The trade-name of a plastic material made from cellulose (cotton fiber) by treatment with a solution of caustic soda, addition of carbon disulphid, and digestion at ordinary temperature until a homogeneous liquid is produced, a solution of cellulose thiocarbonate, from which a structureless jelly-like coagulum of cellulose is formed by spontaneous decomposition. Cellulose tetra-acetate may also be used to obtain viscose. Mineral pigments, hydrocarbons, and other substances may be incorporated with viscose before it is molded into special shapes for use. A fiber imitating silk in luster has also been prepared from this material.

A viscous orange-brown liquid obtained by chemical treatment of cellulose and used as the basis of manufacturing rayon and cellulose film.

A fabric made from this material.

a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers

a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda