etherification
The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid.
Noun
- The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid.
- 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....
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der. Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō) ▲ Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.? Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der. Latin aethērder. English ether English -ification English etherification From ether + -ification.