ether
醚,醚类,乙醚,乙方
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- : Also called diethyl ether, diethyl oxide, ethyl ether, ethyl oxide, sulfuric ether .Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, highly volatile, flammable liquid, C4H10O, having an aromatic odor and sweet, burning taste, derived from ethyl alcohol by the action of sulfuric acid: used as a solvent and, formerly, as an inhalant anesthetic.
- : Chemistry. one of a class of compounds in which two organic groups are attached directly to an oxygen atom, having the general formula ROR.
- : the upper regions of space; the clear sky; the heavens.
- : the medium supposed by the ancients to fill the upper regions of space.
- : Physics. a hypothetical substance supposed to occupy all space, postulated to account for the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through space.
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World-class outdoor destinations like Vermont don’t just materialize out of the ether.
Surprisingly, although anesthesia with ether was first used in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846, the specific processes as to how general anesthetics act at multiple sites to produce anesthetic action remain a mystery.
“So this physical file of her fingerprints had just gone into the ether,” Little said.
Scores of crypto assets, from dogecoin to ether, surged as bitcoin climbed to a record of more than $64,000, up from about $7,000 a year ago, according to CoinDesk data.
Then the band crackled to life, a voice riding a high-frequency wave out of the ether.
We would lack a human face as our symbol; we would exist in the ether of ideas with no concrete stake in the ground to tether us.
A week does not pass without another set of economic numbers blasting through the ether.
Users post a photo, add a question, and send it off into the ether to be answered.
“It almost feels sometimes that Matilda is out in the ether,” she says.
But that particular sword of Damocles has floated off into the ether.
Their heads might have been turned upside-down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether.