... halides or alkylene oxides,3 Recover the solvents and wash the product,4 Dry and mill the ethereified product. What it does: Celluloseethers provides thickening ... functions: Uponeachcellulose ether molecule are the cellulose chain, and the ethergroup,such as the methoxy, the hydroxypropoxy, the hydroxyethoxygroups. Themethoxy group, hydroxyethoxy group, and hydroxypropoxygroups act aswater gatherers ...