Ether (Anesthetic)
The colorless liquid ether was first synthesized about 1540 by Valerius Cordus (1515-1544), who called his discovery "sweet oil of vitriol" and described its medicinal properties. P...
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Hydrogels are polymeric networks that can absorb and retain large amounts of water and biological fluids and swell, still maintaining their three-dimensional structure (1, 2). These polymeric netwo...
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In June 1999, LCGC N. Am. published a special supplement that focused on the sample preparation of solids.1 At that time, we covered general methods — supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), p...
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