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Ethan Phillips

Ethan Phillips (John Ethan Phillips, born 1955) is an American character actor known as Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) and Pete Downey on Benson; also a Broadway actor and playwright of Penguin Blues.

Ethan S. Bernstein

Ethan S. Bernstein is an organizational researcher and Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, best known for the transparency paradox.

Ethan Slater

Ethan Slater (born 1992, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor, singer, and writer, Tony-nominated for originating SpongeBob on Broadway and known as Boq in the Wicked films.

Ethan Strand

Ethan Strand (born 2002), American middle-distance runner from Vestavia Hills, Alabama; NCAA indoor mile (3:48.32) and 3000m (7:30.15) record holder, 2025 NCAA indoor 3000m champion, Nike Swoosh TC pro, 2025 World Championships semifinalist.

Ethan Suplee

Ethan Suplee, born 1976 in Manhattan, is an American actor known for Frankie on Boy Meets World, Mallrats, Louie Lastik in Remember the Titans, and Randy Hickey on My Name Is Earl; he lost about 300 pounds after peaking at 536 pounds in 2001.

Ethan Wayne

Ethan Wayne (John Ethan Wayne), born 1962 in Los Angeles, is John Wayne's youngest son; former actor and stuntman known for Big Jake, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Adam-12, and president of John Wayne Enterprises since 2003.

Ethan Williams (footballer)

Ethan Williams (born 2005, Manchester) is an English left winger. Manchester United academy product; loans at Cheltenham Town and Falkirk; joined Peterborough United permanently in August 2026.

Ethan Winters

Ethan Winters is the civilian protagonist of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017) and Resident Evil Village (2021), played in first person while searching for his wife and daughter.

Ethan Zohn

Ethan Zohn (born 1973), American former pro soccer goalkeeper who won Survivor: Africa in 2002, co-founded Grassroot Soccer, survived Hodgkin lymphoma twice, and returned for All-Stars and Winners at War.

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman is an American internet scholar who wrote the code for the first pop-up ad at Tripod.com, publicly apologized for it, and co-founded the citizen-media community Global Voices.

Ethandinitril

Ethandinitril (ethanedinitrile, EDN, cyanogen, C2N2) is a gaseous broad-spectrum fumigant against soil pests and timber insects; not EU-approved, registered in Australia, and developed as an ozone-safe methyl bromide replacement.

Ethane

Ethane (C2H6) is a colorless, odorless, highly flammable alkane gas, the second-simplest after methane, recovered from natural gas and consumed almost entirely as a petrochemical feedstock for producing ethylene.

Ethanethiol

Ethanethiol, commonly called ethyl mercaptan, is the sulfur analog of ethanol, a flammable liquid boiling near 35 °C with a skunk-like odor detectable at about 1 ppbv.

Ethanol

Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol, is a clear, flammable liquid alcohol, the intoxicating ingredient in alcoholic beverages and the dominant biofuel blended into gasoline.

Ethanol as a food preservative

Ethanol as a food preservative: low-concentration or vapor-phase ethyl alcohol used to inhibit molds, yeasts, and bacteria, chiefly in bakery products; GRAS in the US (21 CFR 184.1293, GRN 151) and delivered via ethanol emitter sachets such as Ethicap.

Ethanol extraction

Ethanol extraction is a solvent-extraction method that uses ethanol, often mixed with water, to dissolve target compounds such as cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids out of plant material.

Ethanol fermentation

Ethanol fermentation (alcoholic fermentation) is the anaerobic microbial conversion of glucose to ethanol and CO2, done industrially by Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast and the bacterium Zymomonas mobilis, yielding about 0.51 g ethanol per g glucose at up to 90% of theoretical yield.

Ethanol fuel

Ethanol fuel, also called bioethanol, is a renewable motor fuel made by fermenting plant sugars and blended with gasoline, mostly from corn in the United States.

Ethanol oxidation

Ethanol oxidation, also called alcohol catabolism, is the liver pathway converting ethanol to acetaldehyde, acetate, and acetyl-CoA via ADH, ALDH, CYP2E1, and catalase, producing NADH and toxic acetaldehyde.

Ethanol precipitation

Ethanol precipitation is a bench method for concentrating and desalting DNA or RNA: ethanol and salt make nucleic acids form a pellet that is collected by centrifugation and redissolved.

Ethanol sclerotherapy

Ethanol sclerotherapy is an image-guided injection of absolute alcohol into vascular malformations, cysts, or varicose veins, obliterating them by thrombosis and scarring; it is the most effective but most aggressive sclerosing agent.

Ethanol steam reforming

Ethanol steam reforming is a catalytic process in which ethanol reacts with steam above 500 °C to produce hydrogen, studied as a renewable route from bioethanol.

Ethanol-to-jet fuel

Ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) is a sustainable aviation fuel pathway that catalytically converts ethanol, usually bioethanol from corn or waste, into jet-range hydrocarbons, certified under ASTM D7566 in 2016.

Ethanolamine

Ethanolamine, also called monoethanolamine (MEA) or 2-aminoethanol, is the simplest amino alcohol, a viscous liquid best known as the benchmark solvent for scrubbing CO2 from industrial gases.

Etharkkum Thunindhavan (எதற்கும் துணிந்தவன்)

Etharkkum Thunindhavan (எதற்கும் துணிந்தவன்), also called ET, is a 2022 Tamil action thriller directed by Pandiraj, produced by Sun Pictures, starring Suriya as lawyer Kannabiran; released 10 March 2022, mixed reviews, box office failure, now on Netflix and Sun NXT.

Ethchlorvynol

Ethchlorvynol (Placidyl, Arvynol) is a discontinued nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic, C7H9ClO, introduced in 1955 for short-term insomnia treatment and later superseded because of dependence and withdrawal risks.

EthD domain

EthD domain (Pfam PF07110): a conserved bacterial protein-domain family related to the EthD protein of Rhodococcus ruber, thought essential to ETBE degradation; unrelated to eukaryotic EHD proteins.

ETHE1

ETHE1 (formerly HSCO) is a human gene on chromosome 19q13 encoding mitochondrial persulfide dioxygenase, which detoxifies hydrogen sulfide; biallelic mutations cause ethylmalonic encephalopathy, a severe autosomal recessive infantile disorder.

eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality

eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the Category A metro governing Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; third largest metro, home of Africa's busiest port, about 3.9 million people, R75.3 billion 2026/27 budget.

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Mae Blythe, 1879-1959), American stage, film, and radio actress of the Barrymore family; won the 1945 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for None But the Lonely Heart and had the Broadway Ethel Barrymore Theatre named for her in 1928.