What Nitrocellulose Actually Is?

**Nitrocellulose** is the backbone of every cartridge you've loaded in the past century. Take cotton or wood pulp, treat it with nitric acid, and you get the base material for **smokeless powder**. Without it, we'd all be shooting [black powder](/handbook/black-powder) and dealing with the smoke clouds our great-grandfathers dealt with.

Colt CZ Group Acquires Synthesia Nitrocellulose

Colt CZ Group Acquires Synthesia Nitrocellulose | The Boise Gun Club Handbook