Celluloid

I have already mentioned three, parkinsine, xylonite, and celluloid.

And I may add, without exhausting the list of species belonging to this genus, viscoloid, lithozyl, fibroloid, coralline, eburite, pulveroid, ivorine, pergamoid, duroid, ivortus, crystalloid, transparine, litnoid, petroid, pasbocene, selonite, and pyrrolin.

Celluloid can be given any color or colors by mixing in aniline dyes or metallic pigments.

The color may be confined to the surface or to the interior or pervade the whole.

If the nitrated tissue paper is bleached, the celluloid is transparent or colorless.

If that is all, we could do without it.

it must be an improvement in some respects on anything to be found in nature or it does not represent a real advance so celluloid and its congeners are not confined to the shapes of shell and coral and crystal or to the grain of ivory and wood and horn the colors of amber and amethyst and lapis lazuli but can be given forms and textures and tints that were never known before eighteen sixty nine let me see now have i mentioned all the uses of celluloid oh no there are handles for canes umbrellas mirrors and brushes Knives, whistles, toys, blown animals, card cases, chains, charms, brooches, badges, bracelets, rings, book bindings, hairpins, campaign buttons, cuff and collar buttons, cuffs, collars, and dickies, tags, cups, knobs, paper cutters, picture frames, chessmen, pool balls, ping pong balls, piano keys, dental plates, masks for disfigured faces, pen holders, eyeglass frames, goggles, playing cards, and you can carry on the list as far as you like.

Celluloid has its disadvantages.