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ETHERS, in organic chemistry, compounds of the general formula R-O-R', where R, R' = alkyl or aryl groups. They may be regarded as the anhydrides of the alcohols, being formed by elimination of one molecule of water from two molecules of the alcohols; those in ...

... on was explained by A. Williamson in 1850. For other methods of preparation see ETHERS.' i See also J. v. Liebig, Ann. Chem. Pharm., 1837, 23, p. 39! l839i •to p 129; E. Mitscherlich, Fogg. Ann., 1836, 31, p. 273:1841, 53, P. '95; A. W. Williamson, Phil. Mag., ...

ESHER, WILLIAM BALIOL BRETT, IST VISCOUNT (18171899), English lawyer and master of the rolls, was a son of the Rev. Joseph G. Brett, of Chelsea, and was born on the i3th of August 1817. He was educated at Westminster and at Caius College, Cambridge. Called to

... lled light. Maxwell saw that it was unphilosophical to assume a multiplicity of ethers or media until it had been proved that one would not fulfil all the requirements. He formulated the conception, therefore, of electric charge as consisting in a displacement ...

... Burton (1838; a handy reprint in a single volume by Bright, 1881), and by many ethers. The most recent and best edition is that of Schwartz in the Berlin Academy's Greek Fathers, of which the first half has appeared, accompanied by the Latin version of Rufinu ...

... d by the aldehyde or alcohol groups, and in consequence they are related to the ethers of glucose and other hexoses, i.e. to the alkyl glucosides. Cane sugar has no reducing power and does not fprm an hydrazone or osazone; the other varieties, however, reduce ...

... nited States, were wholly Middle and proprietary in form. This was true of New NetherSouthcrn land (founded by the Dutch West India Company Colonies, jjj T^ai) and of New Sweden (settled under the authority of the Swedish Royal Company in 1638), as well as of ...