Aether

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Aether, æther or ether may refer to:

Historical science and mythology

• Aether (mythology), the personification of the bright upper sky
• Aether (classical element), the material believed to fill the universe above the terrestrial sphere
• Aether theories, proposing space-filling substance that propagates electromagnetic or gravitational forces
  • Luminiferous aether, the postulated medium for the propagation of light

Science and engineering

• Ether, a class of chemical compounds
  • Diethyl ether, or simply ether, an organic compound
• Petroleum ether, a petroleum fraction (not classified as an ether)
• AETHER, an atmospheric radiative transfer algorithm
• Efir, now called "Sfera," is a telecommunication project of the Russian Federation aiming to create a national Satellite constellation

Arts, entertainment and media

Other uses

• Aether Industries, an Indian chemical manufacturing company
• Ether (prophet), a Book of Mormon prophet
• Ether, North Carolina, a place in the US
• Ether, a cryptocurrency generated in accordance with the Ethereum protocol

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Ether
• All pages with titles beginning with Aether
• All pages with titles beginning with Æther
• All pages with titles containing ether
• Aethyr (disambiguation)
• Aither (disambiguation)
• Ethereal (disambiguation)
• Ethernet, a computer communications technology

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