Editing Dimethyl ether (section)

==Safety==
Unlike other alkyl ethers, dimethyl ether resists [[autoxidation]].<ref>''A comparative study on the autoxidation of dimethyl ether (DME) comparison with diethyl ether (DEE) and diisopropyl ether (DIPE)'', Michie Naito, Claire Radcliffe, Yuji Wada, Takashi Hoshino, Xiongmin Liu, Mitsuru Arai, Masamitsu Tamura. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Volume 18, Issues 4–6, July–November 2005, Pages 469–473 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2005.07.001 DOI]</ref> Dimethyl ether is also relatively non-toxic, although it is highly flammable. On July 28, 1948, a [[BASF]] factory in [[Ludwigshafen]] suffered an explosion after 30 tonnes of dimethyl ether leaked from a tank and ignited in the air. 200 people died, and a third of the industrial plant was destroyed.<ref>[https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/583599?topic=doc70ohy4pxya038cw67f7&start=00%3A01%3A01.20&end=00%3A02%3A00.19 Welt im Film 167/1948] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129152538/https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/583599?topic=doc70ohy4pxya038cw67f7&start=00%3A01%3A01.20&end=00%3A02%3A00.19 |date=2021-01-29 }}. filmothek.bundesarchiv.de</ref>