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viscose

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Noun — A thick orange-brown liquid made by treating cellulose with chemicals, used to produce rayon and cellulose film.

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Etymology

Traces back to Latin viscōsus, from viscum (“birdlime”); by surface analysis it splits into visco- plus -ose, making it a doublet of viscous.

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