Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
ETHOXYETHANE
ether, ethoxyethane, divinyl ether, vinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether
(noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
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Noun
ethoxyethane (usually uncountable, plural ethoxyethanes)
(organic compound, systematic name) diethyl ether.
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