acetate

Any ester or salt of acetic acid.

• […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
• The goods should be handled for about twenty minutes in a solution of sugar (acetate) of lead, pressed out of that and then passed through a solution of this chrome, then aired, passed through the lead and washed and dried.

Cellulose acetate.

• Performers use acetate because eyelash glue is not available. They create eyelashes out of horse hair or cut from carbon paper. Their nails are glued on with a shoe adhesive.

A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.

• Near-synonym: gel

Ellipsis of acetate disc (A disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record)abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

• Acetates are a relic of the days before cassettes, DAT, and recordable CDs came into widespread use in recording studios. Manufactured from aluminum, and coated in a thin sheet of vinyl, they were produced to allow the concerned parties to