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  1. Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!nntp.Stanford.EDU!stankus
  3. From: stankus@leland.Stanford.EDU (John J. Stankus)
  4. Subject: Re: Oxygenated Gasoline and Low MPG (super unleaded?)
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan7.013729.19016@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
  7. Organization: Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
  8. References: <4278.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> <13789@limey> <13792@limey>
  9. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 01:37:29 GMT
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  12. In article <13792@limey> sheriffp@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Sheriff) writes:
  13. >
  14. >   Sorry, my comments got deleted from my previous reply. What I was going to say is that I believe that MTBE stands for Methyl Tetra Butyl Ether if anyone
  15. >is interested.
  16. >
  17. >                            Pete
  18.  
  19. Well not quite MTBE is Methyl tertiary-Butyl Ether.  The tertiary specifies
  20. the butyl isomer used.  Tetra would indicate that there were four butyls in
  21. the molecule.
  22.                         CH3
  23.                        /
  24.         H3C-O-C-CH3
  25.                        \
  26.                         CH3
  27.  
  28.  
  29. note 3's are subscripts
  30.  
  31.  
  32. John J. Stankus                Department of Chemistry
  33. stankus@leland.stanford.edu        Stanford University
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