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Prior the Maxwell's explanation of the propagation of electromagnetic waves, those waves that scientists were familiar with required a medium for their propagation. They therefore proposed the existence of ether through which waves such as light could move.

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Space was once believed to be filled with?

Space was once believed to be filled with ether. Ether is a colorless and odorless liquid gas that is highly flammable.


Is ether mixture or pure substance?

Neither, its a pure substance


Who was the first person to discover ether?

Ether is a compound which is created by the condensation of alcohols. It was first discovered in 1275, by Raymundus Lullis, and was put into use as a medical anesthetic in 1842 by Crawford Williamson Long. Aether (pronounced like ether) is a non-existing substance, which early physicists believed filled the universe.


Is the evaporation of ether a chemical change?

No. Evaporation of ether or any other substance is a physical change as the identity of the substance remains the same.


What is the name of the substance in which protons and neutrons are built?

ether


Is ether a basic compound?

Ether is indeed a pure substance rather than a mixture. The boiling point of ether is 94.28 degrees Fahrenheit or 34.6 degrees Celsius.


What is the substance for ether?

Ether is a volatile liquid that is colorless and highly flammable. It has a sweet smell and is commonly used as a solvent and anesthetic.


Is ether a polar substance?

Polar. the C-O bond are polar


What color is Ether?

Ether is not a physical object or substance, so it does not have a color. It is a hypothetical medium through which electromagnetic waves are thought to propagate.


What is a ether?

What scientists thought was in the empty parts of space, until Einstein corrected them. Or an ether can refer to an organic molecule in which two hydrocarbon chains are bonded to an oxygen atom.


What does the ether do?

The "ether" is a hypothetical substance, postulated in the past to explain the propagation of electromagnetic waves such as light. The word is hardly used nowadays. Empty space takes over this role, but it doesn't have all the properties that were expected of the ether in the past.


Space was once believed to be filled with this?

Ether. Then God created the Ethernet and caught every orbiting fish!