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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless liquid polymer, C6H12O3, of acetaldehyde, used as a solvent and a sedative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless liquid with a disagreeable odor and taste, C6H12O3, obtained by treating aldehyde with sulphuric or hydrochloric acid. It is used in medicine as a hypnotic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A trimer of acetaldehyde (C6H12O3), prepared by polymerization of acetaldehyde with hydrochloric and sulfuric acids. It has sedative and hypnotic properties.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
cyclic trimer ofacetaldehyde once used as anantidepressant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent
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But it is ethanol, not paraldehyde that most people are familiar with.
Alcohol James Killus 2007
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But it is ethanol, not paraldehyde that most people are familiar with.
Archive 2007-10-01 James Killus 2007
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Acetaldehyde forms a trimer in the presence of acid catalysts such as sulphuric or phosphoric acid, to make paraldehyde, a pharmacological sedative.
Archive 2007-10-01 James Killus 2007
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Acetaldehyde forms a trimer in the presence of acid catalysts such as sulphuric or phosphoric acid, to make paraldehyde, a pharmacological sedative.
Alcohol James Killus 2007
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Quickly he put the screwdriver and the small blue bottle of paraldehyde in his jacket pocket and slipped out, lighting his way with the torch.
A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963
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Nagle had helped to control him while Baguley had called to Sister for paraldehyde.
A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963
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In the naphthalene series, on the other hand, the ring closes up by, for instance, the condensation of [Greek: b] - naphthol with benzaldehyde or paraldehyde, and yields the following compounds: --
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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This was heated with paraldehyde, whereby it was converted into allylpyridine (48 grammes), and this by reduction with sodium yielded alpha-propylpyridine, a body in almost every respect identical with coniine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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For in fl ammatory bowel disease and Organic solvents are often used to enhance the proctitis, this is simply a topical administration. rate of absorption from subcutaneous or intramus - Diazepam and paraldehyde administered rect - cular sites of administration.
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suppository of diazepam, paraldehyde, or phenobarbital up the rectum
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