THIS communication gives a preliminary report on the investigation of the mechanism of formation of diethyl ether by interaction of diethyl sulphate and ethyl alcohol, using the heavy oxygen ...

Ether, short for diethyl ether, is one of the most important chemicals in history and its use as a general anesthetic is arguably one of the greatest discoveries of all time (1). Surgery before ...

Overview. Peroxide-forming chemicals are a class of compounds that have the ability to form shock-sensitive explosive peroxide crystals. Many of the organic solvents commonly used in Connecticut ...

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 ...