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It is the oily residuum left after etherification.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E by Project Gutenberg

We are absolutely ignorant of its mechanism, as we are also in the case of etherification.

From Three Acres and Liberty by Hall, Bolton

Lastly, Graham also made interesting observations on the combination of alcohol with salts, on the process of etherification, on the slow oxidation of phosphorus, and on the spontaneous inflammability of phosphureted hydrogen.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons