etherification

See also: éthérification

English

Etymology

ether +‎ -ification

Noun

etherification (countable and uncountable, plural etherifications)

1. (organic chemistry) The process of making an ether, especially the removal of alcohols from petroleum products by reacting with sulfuric acid.
   • 1809, Mr. Boullay, “On Sulphuric Ether, and on the Preparation of it”, in The Repertory Of Arts And Manufactures‎^[1]:

     The particular kind of tritorium which facilitated the etherification of phosphoric acid, and is applicable to many other chemical operations, affords the means of practising the operation just now proposed, as follows.