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chloral

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chlo·ral  (klôrl, klr-)
n.
A colorless, mobile, oily aldehyde, CCl3CHO, a penetrating lung irritant, used to manufacture DDT and chloral hydrate.
[chlor(ine) + al(cohol).]
chloral [ˈklɔːrəl]
n
1. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a colourless oily liquid with a pungent odour, made from chlorine and acetaldehyde and used in preparing chloral hydrate and DDT; trichloroacetaldehyde
2. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) short for chloral hydrate
Translations
chloral [ˈklɔːrəl] N → cloral m


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Westmacott had been left sleeping peacefully with a small chloral draught to steady her nerves and a handkerchief soaked in arnica bound round her head.
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Send your husband to the nearest chemist as soon as it's dawn; send him for chloral, chloroform, morphia, anything they've got and as much of it as they'll let him have.
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He gradually grew more morbid, and became a rather pitiful victim of insomnia, the drug chloral, and spiritualistic delusions about his wife.
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