[f. ETHERIFY: see -FICATION.] The action or process of converting alcohol into ether. Also attrib.

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1805.  C. Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XCV. 220. [Phenomena] attendant on etherification.

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1833.  Penny Cycl., I. 157/1 s.v. Æther, During the etherification of the alcohol the sulphuric acid plays an active part.

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1869.  Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 324. This process is called the continuous etherification process.

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1881.  Watts, in Nature, XXV. 50. The experiments of Williamson on Etherification.

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