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cupro
(cupro)
Pronunciation:
/ˈk(j)uːprəʊ/
noun
[
mass noun
]
a type of rayon made by dissolving cotton cellulose with cuprammonium salts and spinning the resulting solution into filaments.
Origin:
1980s
: an invented word, probably from
cuprammonium
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