What does dimethyl ether mean?

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dimethyl ether

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English

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DME glyme

di- methan-

di- dimethyl ether methan- methane methyl DME dimethylether

What does dimethyl ether mean?: The simplest ether; that derived from methanol (CH₃OCH₃)

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