Etherification
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Etherification is a noun meaning (organic chemistry) The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid.
Meaning
(organic chemistry) The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid.
Example Sentences
The particular kind of tritorium which facilitated the etherification of phosphoric acid, and is applicable to many other chemical operations, affords the means of practising the operation just now proposed, as follows.
Word Forms
- etherifications
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transetherification, esterification, etherate, thioetherification, olefination, methylesterification.
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