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Paracelsus himself synthesized diethyl ether, a sweet-smelling, highly flammable hallucinogenic anaesthetic that could induce euphoria.
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Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
Gee envisions how a dragon might biologically synthesize diethyl ether.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
One candidate might be the organic solvent diethyl ether.
—Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013
The distillate was continuously extracted with diethyl ether.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2012
While scientists still aren’t clear on how general anesthetics like diethyl ether work, there are a couple of leading hypotheses.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
Without an anesthetic, the scientists could measure pulses, but the pulses were lost following diethyl ether exposure.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
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Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
Gee envisions how a dragon might biologically synthesize diethyl ether.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
One candidate might be the organic solvent diethyl ether.
—Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013
The distillate was continuously extracted with diethyl ether.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2012
While scientists still aren’t clear on how general anesthetics like diethyl ether work, there are a couple of leading hypotheses.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
Without an anesthetic, the scientists could measure pulses, but the pulses were lost following diethyl ether exposure.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
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diethyl ether
noun
di·eth·yl ether
(ˌ)dī-ˌeth-əl- 
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