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  2. Aether theories - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, luminiferous aether (or ether), meaning light-bearing aether, was a theorized medium for the propagation of light. James Clerk Maxwell developed a model to explain electric and magnetic phenomena using the aether, a model that led to what are now called Maxwell's equations and the understanding that light is an ...

  3. Ether - Wikipedia

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    In dimethyl ether, the bond angle is 111° and C–O distances are 141 pm. [3] The barrier to rotation about the C–O bonds is low. The bonding of oxygen in ethers, alcohols, and water is similar. In the language of valence bond theory, the hybridization at oxygen is sp 3.

  4. Aether (classical element) - Wikipedia

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    According to ancient and medieval science, aether (/ ˈ iː θ ər /, alternative spellings include æther, aither, and ether), also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. [1]

  5. Michelson–Morley experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Experiments on the relative motion of the earth and ether have been completed and the result decidedly negative. The expected deviation of the interference fringes from the zero should have been 0.40 of a fringe – the maximum displacement was 0.02 and the average much less than 0.01 – and then not in the right place.

  6. Ball-and-stick model - Wikipedia

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    In a ball-and-stick model, the radius of the spheres is usually much smaller than the rod lengths, in order to provide a clearer view of the atoms and bonds throughout the model. As a consequence, the model does not provide a clear insight about the space occupied by the model.

  7. 1,4-Dioxane - Wikipedia

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    1,4-Dioxane (/ d aɪ ˈ ɒ k s eɪ n /) is a heterocyclic organic compound, classified as an ether. It is a colorless liquid with a faint sweet odor similar to that of diethyl ether . The compound is often called simply dioxane because the other dioxane isomers ( 1,2- and 1,3- ) are rarely encountered.

  8. Lorentz ether theory - Wikipedia

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    However, other experiments like the Fizeau experiment and the effect of aberration disproved that model. A possible solution came in sight, when in 1889 Oliver Heaviside derived from Maxwell's equations that the magnetic vector potential field around a moving body is altered by a factor of 1 − v 2 / c 2 {\textstyle {\sqrt {1-v^{2}/c^{2}}}} .

  9. Tests of special relativity - Wikipedia

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    Fizeau experiment, 1851. Beginning with the work of François Arago (1810), a series of optical experiments had been conducted, which should have given a positive result for magnitudes of first order in / (i.e., of (/)) and which thus should have demonstrated the relative motion of the aether.