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| a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF, or a compound containing fluorine, as methyl fluoride, CH3F |
| an atomic spatial arrangement that results from rotation of carbon atoms about single bonds within an organic molecule |
ethyl ether n.
See diethyl ether.
| ethyl ether
See ether. |
ethyl ether
well-knownwell-known anesthetic, commonly called simply ether, an organic compound belonging to a large group of compounds called ethers; its molecular structure consists of two ethyl groups linked through an oxygen atom, as in C2H5OC2H5.
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