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  2. Ether - Wikipedia

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    Ether. The general structure of an ether. R and R' represent most organyl substituents. In organic chemistry, ethers are a class of compounds that contain an ether group —an oxygen atom bonded to two organyl groups (e.g., alkyl or aryl). They have the general formula R−O−R′, where R and R′ represent the organyl groups.

  3. Lorentz ether theory - Wikipedia

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    Lorentz ether theory. What is now often called Lorentz ether theory (LET) has its roots in Hendrik Lorentz 's "theory of electrons", which marked the end of the development of the classical aether theories at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. Lorentz's initial theory was created between 1892 and 1895 and was based on ...

  4. Bent's rule - Wikipedia

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    Methanol has one electropositive methyl substituent and one electronegative hydrogen substituent. Hence, less s character is observed than dimethyl ether. When there are two hydrogen substituent groups, the angle is decreased even further with the increase in electronegativity and p character. Finally, when both hydrogen substituents are ...

  5. Electronegativities of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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    93. ^ The electronegativity of francium was chosen by Pauling as 0.7, close to that of caesium (also assessed 0.7 at that point). The base value of hydrogen was later increased by 0.10 and caesium's electronegativity was later refined to 0.79; however, no refinements have been made for francium as no experiment has been conducted.

  6. Electronegativity - Wikipedia

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    Electronegativity. Electrostatic potential map of a water molecule, where the oxygen atom has a more negative charge (red) than the positive (blue) hydrogen atoms. Electronegativity, symbolized as χ, is the tendency for an atom of a given chemical element to attract shared electrons (or electron density) when forming a chemical bond. [1]

  7. Aether theories - Wikipedia

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    Aether theories. In the history of physics, aether theories (or ether theories) proposed the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces. Since the development of special relativity, theories using a substantial aether fell out of use in modern ...

  8. Williamson ether synthesis - Wikipedia

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    The Williamson ether synthesis is an organic reaction, forming an ether from an organohalide and a deprotonated alcohol (alkoxide). This reaction was developed by Alexander Williamson in 1850. [2] Typically it involves the reaction of an alkoxide ion with a primary alkyl halide via an S N 2 reaction. This reaction is important in the history of ...

  9. 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.