Ivoride

I´vo`ride


n.1.A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Parkesine would later be renamed Xylonite, Ivoride and then finally Celluloid - but Parkes' eponymous material paved the way for the development of what we now know as the plastics industry.
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Cellulose nitrate was first discovered in the 1840s and was developed under various names such as parkesine, xylonite and ivoride, as well as celluloid.
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