Researchers from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that water can activate previously "NMR-invisible" aluminum ...

Ether, short for diethyl ether, is one of the most important chemicals in history and its use as a general anesthetic is arguably one of the greatest discoveries of all time (1). Surgery before ...

Diethyl ether worked much better-and not just for tooth extraction. Local nurse has treatment for anesthesia sickness On October 16, 1846, ...

Overview. Peroxide-forming chemicals are a class of compounds that have the ability to form shock-sensitive explosive peroxide crystals. Many of the organic solvents commonly used in Connecticut ...

World Anaesthesia Day: It was on October 16, 1846, that doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States demonstrated the use of diethyl ether anaesthesia for the first time on a ...