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Some of the benzene that hadn't already soaked into the ground burned up, along with cars containing ethyl ether and acrylonitrile, a volatile compound used to make plastics and acrylic fibers.
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Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 6 Jan. 2018
Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 6 Jan. 2018
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1852, in the meaning defined above
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“Ethyl ether.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethyl%20ether. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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ethyl ether
noun
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