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How Do You Make Dimethyl Ether - DME?

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methanol dehydration to dimethyl ether (DME).

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What is dme a fuel?

Dimethyl ether (DME) is the organic compound with the formula CH3OCH3. The simplest ether, it is a colourless gas that is a useful precursor to other organic compounds and an aerosol propellant. Dimethyl ether is also promising as a clean-burning hydrocarbon fuel.


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DME (DiMethyl Ether) is rather unpolar because it is symmetrical (+-+), it has a bended or hooked (V-like) structure (about 120o corner) with 'longer, more spread legs' than water (104.5o). It is more polar than di-Ethyl ether however.


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What is the name of CH3-O-CH3?

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Why is dimethyl ether soluble in water but pentane is not?

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Which has a lower enthalpy ethanol or dimethyl ether?

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When one molecule of dimethyl ether is burned how many molecules of product are formed?

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