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etherification

noun

Etymology

From ether + -ification.

  1. derived from *h₂eydʰ-✻
  2. derived from αἰθήρ
  3. derived from aethēr
  4. derived from aethēr
  5. derived from aether
  6. derived from ether
  7. derived from ether
  8. inherited from ēther
  9. suffixed as etherification — “ether + ification”

Definitions

  1. The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum…

    The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid.

    • The particular kind of tritorium which facilitated the etherification of phosphoric acid, and is applicable to many other chemical operations, affords the means of practising the operation just now proposed, as follows.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for etherification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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