Viscose

Definitions: Viscose

Viscose

Noun

1. A cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda.

2. A rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers.

Specialty Definitions: Viscose

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Regenerated cellulose fibre obtained by the viscose process for filament and discontinuous fibre. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Viscose

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Viscose is a viscous organic liquid used to make rayon and cellophane. Cellulose from wood or cotton fibres is treated with sodium hydroxide, then mixed with carbon disulphide to form cellulose xanthate, which is dissolved in more sodium hydroxide. The resulting viscose is extruded through a slit to make cellophane, or through a spinneret to make viscose rayon (sometimes simply called viscose).

The process for manufacturing viscose was discovered by three British chemists, Charles Cross, Edward Bevan and Clayton Beadle, in 1891. Viscose is becoming less common because of the polluting effects of carbon disulphide and other by-products of the process.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Viscose."

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Synonyms: Viscose

Synonyms: cellulose xanthate (n), viscose rayon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Viscose

English words defined with "viscose": viscose rayon. (references)

Specialty definitions using "viscose": aging room operator ♦ bave ♦ carbon disulfide poisoning, CASTING-MACHINE-SERVICE OPERATOR, CASTING-ROOM OPERATOR, CELLOPHANE-BATH MIXER, COAGULATING-BATH MIXER, cocoon filament, Cole reagent ♦ filter changer, FILTER CLEANER, filterer ♦ hopper operator ♦ Incontinence Pads ♦ jet rings ♦ RIPENING-ROOM ATTENDANT, ripening-room hand ♦ salt figure, SODA DIALYZER, SPINNING-BATH PATROLLER, spin-tank tender, SUPERVISOR, CHEMICAL ♦ TANKROOM TENDER ♦ WET-END OPERATOR I. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Viscose" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (viscose), Portuguese (viscose).

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Commercial Usage: Viscose

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Wholesale High-Tenacity Viscose Rayon Yarn Excluding Sewing Thread: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)
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Photo Album: Viscose

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	American Enka Corp., Morristown, Tennessee. Viscose tank.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Viscose

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Fabrics such as silk, viscose, and polyester do not play a big role. For reasons of comfort, convenience and hygiene, bed sheets made from cotton are most preferred by consumers. (references)
Economic History	Pakistan	Polyester staple fiber and polyester filament yarn are manufactured locally, but acrylic and viscose staple fibers are imported. (references)
	Pakistan	About 80 percent of the country's textile industry's consumption is based on cotton and the remaining 20 percent on man-made fibers, particularly polyester, acrylic and viscose. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Viscose

"Viscose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Viscose" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.44%	38	55,818
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Viscose

Expressions using "viscose": viscose fiber ♦ viscose rayon ♦ viscose rayon fiber. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "viscose": Vp-viscose.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Viscose

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
viscose	53
rayon viscose	9
viscose fabric	7
nanjing viscose	6
filament rayon viscose yarn	4
fiber viscose	3
sponge viscose	2
viscose rug	2
viscose yarn	2
filament in india rayon viscose yarn	2
cellulose viscose	2
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Modern Translations: Viscose

Language		Translations for "viscose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		viskozë, fije mëndafshi. (various references)

Arabic		‏فسكوزي, ‏الفسكوزي مادة لدائنية تستخدم بالنسيج. (various references)

Bulgarian		вискоза. (various references)

Chinese		粘胶. (various references)

Danish		viskose/viskoserayon, viskose. (various references)

Dutch		viscose. (various references)

Finnish		viskoosikuidut. (various references)

French		viscose. (various references)

German		Viskose. (various references)

Greek		κιλλώδησ ουσία, ραιγιόν βισκόζης, βισκόζη, ιξώδησ (flocculent, viscous). (various references)

Hebrew		צמי�'י (adhesive, ropy, sticky). (various references)

Italian		viscosa. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"ジネススクール入学共通試�" (BIS, -bis, biscuit, bisque, business hotel, business leadership, business loan, business model, business partner, business produce, business school entrance test, businesslike, businessman, GMAT, screw, vision, visual, visual communication, visual design, visual display, visual flight, visual language, visual merchandising, visualization, visualize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"スコース . (various references)

Pig Latin		iscosevay

Portuguese		viscose. (various references)

Romanian		viscozã. (various references)

Russian		вискоза вискозный (rayon), вискоза (rayon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		viskoza. (various references)

Spanish		viscoso (clammy, dank, gooey, heavy, of high viscosity, ropy, sizing, sling, slippery, sticky, viscid, viscous), viscosa. (various references)

Swedish		viskosfiber, viskos. (various references)

Turkish		viskoz (viscous). (various references)

Ukranian		віскозний, віскоза (rayon). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Viscose

Derivations
	Words beginning with "viscose": viscoses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Viscose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mischosen, Ovisco, vezzosi, vicos, viscos, viscosa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Viscose

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-s-s-v"
	-1 letter: cosies, voices.
	-2 letters: coses, cosie, coves, sices, vices, vises, voces, voice.
	-3 letters: cess, coss, cove, ices, oses, secs, seis, sice, sics, vice, vies, vise, voes.
	-4 letters: cis, cos, ess, ice, oes, ose, sec, sei, sic, sis, sos, vie, vis, voe.
	-5 letters: es, is, oe, os, si, so.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-s-s-v"
	+1 letter: viscoses.
	+2 letters: discovers, vocalises, voiceless.
	+3 letters: concessive, concussive, corrosives, coverslips, livestocks, muscovites, slipcovers, slivovices, solvencies, videodiscs.
	+4 letters: associative, codiscovers, coinvestors, compressive, compulsives, constatives, conversions, costiveness, discoverers, discoveries, echoviruses, mischievous, rediscovers, vasectomies, vichyssoise, viciousness, viscometers, viscosities, viscountess, viscounties, viscousness, vivisectors, voicelessly.
	+5 letters: coerciveness, cohesiveness, concessively, conservatism, consumptives, conveyorises, dichlorvoses, dissociative, insectivores, insolvencies, lovesickness, misconceives, objectivisms, objectivists, obstructives, overcastings, overclassify, overissuance, overservices, slavocracies, subvocalizes, varicosities, vasectomizes, venesections, viceroyships, vichyssoises, viscoelastic, viscometries, viscosimeter, viscountcies, vivisections, voicefulness.
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