Ethyl ether

• Formula: C₄H₁₀O
• Molecular weight: 74.1216
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H10O/c1-3-5-4-2/h3-4H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: RTZKZFJDLAIYFH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 60-29-7
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• Other names: Ethane, 1,1'-oxybis-; Anaesthetic ether; Anesthesia ether; Anesthetic ether; Diethyl ether; Diethyl oxide; Ethoxyethane; Pronarcol; Solvent ether; 1,1'-Oxybisethane; (C2H5)2O; Aether; Diaethylaether; Dwuetylowy eter; Etere etilico; Ether ethylique; Ether, ethyl; Ethyl ether, tech.; Ethyl oxide; Oxyde d'ethyle; Rcra waste number U117; UN 1155; 3-Oxapentane; Ether; Ethyl ether anhydrous A.C.S.; Sulfuric ether; NSC 100036
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References

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Ambrose, Sprake, et al., 1972
Ambrose, D.; Sprake, C.H.S.; Townsend, R., Thermodynamic properties of organic oxygen compounds XXIX. The vapor pressure of diethyl ether, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 247. [all data]

Zawisza, 1967
Zawisza, A.C., High pressure phase equilibriums and the compressibility of the sulfur dioxide - diethyl ether system, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Ser. Sci. Chim., 1967, 15, 291-7. [all data]

Kobe, Ravicz, et al., 1956
Kobe, K.A.; Ravicz, A.E.; Vohra, S.P., Critical Properties and Vapor Pressures of Some Ethers and Heterocyclic Compounds, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1956, 1, 50. [all data]

Kay and Donham, 1955
Kay, W.B.; Donham, W.E., Liquid-Vapor Equilibrium in the Isobutyl Alcohol-Butanol, Methanol- Butanol, and Diethyl Ether-Butanol Systems, Chem. Eng. Sci., 1955, 4, 1-16. [all data]

Schroeer, 1929
Schroeer, E., The Critical State II. Limiting Curve of Ethyl Ether, Z. Phys. Chem., Abt. A, 1929, 140, 241-53. [all data]

Schroeer, 1929, 2
Schroeer, E., The Critical State III. Behaviour of Ethyl Ether Under Isothermal Compression in the Critical and Hypercritical Region, Z. Phys. Chem., Abt. A, 1929, 140, 379-90. [all data]

Wilip, 1924
Wilip, J., , Eesti Vabariigi Tartu Ulik. Toim. A 6(2), 74pp, 1924. [all data]

Prins, 1915
Prins, A., On critical end-points and the system ethane + naphtalene, Proc. K. Ned. Akad. Wet., 1915, 17, 1095-106. [all data]

Young, 1910
Young, S., The Internal Heat of Vaporization constants of thirty pure substances, Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc., 1910, 12, 374. [all data]

Schamhardt, 1908
Schamhardt, , Thesis, Amsterdam, 1908. [all data]

Centerszwer and Pakalneet, 1906
Centerszwer, M.; Pakalneet, A., The critical pressure of solutions, Z. Phys. Chem., Stoechiom. Verwandtschaftsl., 1906, 55, 303. [all data]

Smits, 1905
Smits, A., On the Phenomenon, which arises, in Binary Mixtures when the Fold-Point Curve Intersects the Solubility Curve, Z. Phys. Chem., Stoechiom. Verwandtschaftsl., 1905, 52, 587. [all data]

Galitzine and Wilip, 1901
Galitzine, B.; Wilip, J., Bull. Acad. Pet., 1901, 1901, No. 3, 117. [all data]

Battelli, 1892
Battelli, A., Ann. Chim. Phys., 1892, 25, 38. [all data]

Ramsay and Young, 1887
Ramsay, W.; Young, S., On evaporation and dissociation part III a study of the thermal properties of ethyl oxide, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, A, 1887, 178, 57-93. [all data]

Ramsay, 1881
Ramsay, W., Proc. R. Soc. London, 1881, 31, 194-205. [all data]

Sajots, 1879
Sajots, W., Vapor Pressures of Saturated Vapors at High Temperatures., Beibl. Ann. Phys., 1879, 3, 741-3. [all data]

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure

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