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Ethers, it is described that ethers are used widely as solvents, both in chemical manufacture and in the research laboratory. It is also mentioned therein that the most important ether is ethyl ether. While describing ethyl ether, it is mentioned in this Encyclopaedia as under:The best known of the ethers is ethyl ether, sometimes, called diethyl ether or simply ether, CH3 CH2 O CH2 CH3. It is used in industry as a solvent and in medicine as an anaesthetic, McGraw -- Hill Encyclopaedia of Chemistry, 2nd Edn....
Ethye Ethers
Ethye Ethers, solvent is only a descriptive name for ether which is widely used as a solvent not only in the industry, but also in chemical manufacture and in research laboratories. Ether and ethyl ether are the same substance and the term 'ether' is used synonymously with 'ethyl ether', Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Sony Cheriyan, (1999) 6 SCC 451....
Ether
Ether, means a class of organic compounds in which an oxygen atom is interposed between two carbon atoms (organic groups) in the molecular structure giving the generic formula ROR. They may be derived from alcohols by elimination of water, but the major method is catalytic hydration of olefins. Only the lowest member of the series, methyl ether, is gaseous; most are liquid and the highest members are solid (cellulose ethers). The term 'ether' is often used synonymously with 'ethyl ether' and is the legal label name for it, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 11th Edn....
Ether
A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity once supposed to pervade all space the interior of solid bodies not excepted and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat hence often called luminiferous ether It is no longer believed that such a medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic waves the modern use of the term is mostly a figurative term for empty space or for literary effect and not intended to imply the actual existence of a physical medium However modern cosmological theories based on quantum field theory do not rule out the possibility that the inherent energy of the vacuum is greater than zero in which case the concept of an ether pervading the vacuum may have more than metaphoric meaning...
Ethereal
Pertaining to the hypothetical upper purer air or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere celestial as ethereal space ethereal regions...
Ethereality
The state of being ethereal etherealness...
Etherealize
To convert into ether or into subtile fluid to saturate with ether...
Ethereous
Formed of ether ethereal...
Etherealism
Ethereality...
Etherealization
An ethereal or spiritlike state...