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Ethers

compounds containing two different, united to an oxygen atom. For is going on in the ether. instance, methyl ether has the formula tical methyl groups, CHs, united to the in this case being different. Methyl ether oxygen atom. Methyl ethyl ether has is a gas, but all other ethers are mobile, oxygen atom. Methyl ethyl ether has tical methyl groups, CH₃, united to the in this case being different. Methyl ether is a gas, but all other ethers are mobile, times known as sulphuric ether, and this is the ether used in surgery as an anæstimes known as sulphuric ether, and this heating with sulphuric acid, ethyl hydrogen sulphate being first produced, this heating with sulphuric acid, ethyl hyyield ether and sulphuric acid. Sulcompound reacting with more alcohol to at 35° C, and having a specific yield ether and sulphuric acid. Sulits vapor forms an explosive mixture with air. Its odor to some is pleasant, ific gravity but to those on whom it has been used as produce nausea. Large quantities of it an anesthetic it is apt, afterward, to are used in the manufacture of smokeless an anæsthetic it is apt, afterward, to alkaloids, etc. organization founded in New York in 1876 by Dr. Felix Adler for the purpose

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