Figure 1. Diethyl ether contains two alkyl groups, in this case, both are ethyl groups. You can replace hydrogen atoms on the alkyl groups and the chemical is still part of the ether class. Hence, the ...

World Anaesthesia Day: It was on October 16, 1846, that doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States demonstrated the use of diethyl ether anaesthesia for the first time on a ...

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D. M. Newitt, M. A. Vernon, The Thermal Decomposition of Gaseous Diethyl Ether at High Pressures, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical ...

Letter Published: 08 June 1946 Mechanism of Formation of Ether, Using the Heavy Oxygen Isotope 18 O as a Tracer Element T. LAUDER & J. H. GREEN Nature 157, 767–768 (1946) Cite this article ...