Esters are formed by the condensation reaction between an alcohol and a carboxylic acid. This is known as esterification. In a condensation reaction, two molecules join and produce a larger ...

To make an ester, a hydrogen atom must be removed from the hydroxyl group (–OH) of the alcohol. The –OH portion of the acid's carboxyl group must also be removed. The hydrogren atom and the ...

Esther Mahlangu is a renowned South African artist, born in 1935 in Mpumalanga, South Africa. She is celebrated for her paintings that reflect her Ndebele heritage. Her full name is Esther Nikwambi ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The book of Esther is one of the most challenging books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, not only because of the difficulty of ...

In the space of a week, Ester Ledecka earned a place in Olympic Winter Games history. The best female Alpine snowboarding specialist in the world, she began by surprising all the favourites in the ...

But responding to the news, former minister for "common sense" Esther McVey posted a famous Martin Niemöller poem about inaction from within Germany against the Nazis during the Second World War ...

For two decades, Esther An has brandished innovative techniques and creative business practices that are helping the international construction and real estate industry curb its impact on the ...

Esther Fung is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's corporate bureau in New York, where she writes about parcel-shipping companies like FedEx and UPS, freight railroads like Union Pacific, CSX ...

Esther John was born Qamar Zia, on 14th October 1929, one of seven children. As a child she attended a government school and, after the age of seventeen, a Christian school. There she was profoundly ...