ether

• a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
• a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
• the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water
• any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
• A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat
• Supposed matter above the air
• A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide
• Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in North Carolina

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