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chloral Definition


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chloral
noun
    1. medicine.
      An oily colourless toxic liquid with a pungent odour, produced by the chlorination of acetaldehyde, and used in the manufacture of DDT and the sedative and hypnotic drug chloral hydrate. Also called trichloroethanal.
Etymology: 19c: see chlorine and alcohol.



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