divinyl ether

Questions about divinyl ether

What does divinyl ether mean?

divinyl ether means "a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic".

What is another word for divinyl ether?

Close synonyms include ether, ethoxyethane, vinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is divinyl ether a common word?

divinyl ether is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.