Natura - nature actualia - actual entities Mundus Plinius - physical world naturalia - natural bodies "crystal-kingdom" chemical substances chemical compounds Class ethers [ROR (R≠H)] Class epoxy compounds (─O─ bridge) Class epoxides [~R2COCR2~] 2-ethyl-2-methyloxirane [C5H10O; ~OC(CH3)(CH2CH3)CH2~]