Present participle: the process of converting a substance into an ether or treating it with ether.
Present participle of 'etherify,' combining 'ether' with the gerund suffix '-ing' plus the infinitive marker '-fy'.
Right now, pharmaceutical companies are etherifying new compounds in labs worldwide—even though ether fell out of fashion as an anesthetic, the chemistry behind it powers drug development.
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