If You Are Standing Outside And Have A Fire Built And Some One Is Spraying Ether On The Fire While You Are Close To Them Can The Ether Get In Your Eyes?

[Shelia123]

If someone is spraying ether on a fire outside and you are standing near them can the ether get in your eyes???

[barry1010]

Yes

[Sqad]

Why would you want to spray ether on a fire, as it is highly inflammable and could explode?
Or have I missed the point?

Yes, you could get the ether vapour in your eyes.

[gingejbee]

Ether is so flammable that I doubt that the ether would still be a vapour by the time it reached any persons' eyes...more like a ball of fire.
(I have witnessed an ether fire in University labs - it moves VERY quickly. Anybody who has ether near a flame shouldn't be allowed out!)

[bookbinder]

Why do you want to know?

[Peter Pedant]

BP 52'C I seem to remember
so yes it could

used for an anaesthetic for 100 y and NOT a great danger ( ether in eye)

irritates....

https://www.ehs.com/2015/04/understanding-the-safety-risks-of-diethyl-ether/#:~:text=Diethyl%20ether%20is%20a%20volatile,catch%20fire%20or%20even%20explode.&text=This%20chemical%20also%20poses%20an,being%20in%20its%20general%20vicinity.

[Peter Pedant]

spraying it on a fire
presumably it is a small fire and they want to make it bigger

I wd expect it to go - - wump !

( I am a great damp squib fire lighter.....)

[Peter Pedant]

god you can buy it!
£30 for 100 ml

[Canary42]

Nasty stuff - I had it as an anaesthetic in 1948 and was violently sick when I "awoke".

[Peter Pedant]

yeah god they threw up everywhere
( also the successor trilene if used with ergot)

[davebro]

ether you will or you won't!