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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The formation of the chemical substance ether.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid

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