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Meanings of ether in английском
A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic.
The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies.
Usage of ether in английском
1
It is readily soluble in water and alcohol, but insoluble in ether.
2
He'd surely heard a lot of patients coming out from under ether.
3
This principle was insoluble in water and alcohol, but soluble in ether.
4
These substances are soluble in alcohol and ether, but insoluble in water.
5
Suddenly a shift in the wind brings us the smell of ether.
6
For seventeen hours the world has been soaked in the poisonous ether.
7
Or it is like a current of magnetic force in the ether.
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The phenomenon of aberration also favoured the theory of the quasi-rigid ether.
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Nothing in the ether spectrum is corkscrewy enough to get through it.
10
The girls seemed to be floating in a sea of crimson-amber ether.
11
The discovery of chloroform or ether made no change in human nature.
12
An excessive amount of ether given at beginning; artificial respiration became necessary.
13
The ether-faces of the dead were quite clear in front of her.
14
The telephone current is a phenomenon of the ether, say the theorists.
15
Then something odd began to happen out there in the critical ether.
16
C., and is miscible in all proportions with water, alcohol and ether.
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