paraldehyde
/puh-ral-duh-hahyd/US // pəˈræl dəˌhaɪd //UK // (pəˈrældɪˌhaɪd) //
副醛,副甲醛,副醛类,帕拉甲醛
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Chemistry, Pharmacology.
- : a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C6H12O3, having a disagreeable taste but an agreeable odor, produced by the polymerization of acetaldehyde with sulfuric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of organic chemicals and in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.
Examples
For the same reason the use of paraldehyde in such cases is quite inadmissable.
The substance investigated was acetaldehyde, C2H4O, in its relation to paraldehyde, a polymeric modification.
An ounce of this mixture contains forty-five grains of paraldehyde.
Recently, paraldehyde has been employed as a substitute for chloral.
For this reason it is possible to determine the freezing point curves of acetaldehyde and paraldehyde.
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