Definitions for paraldehyde

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paraldehyde par·al·de·hyde

Spelling: [puh-ral-duh-hahyd]

IPA: /pəˈræl dəˌhaɪd/

Paraldehyde is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 488 anagrams from letters in paraldehyde (aaddeehlpry).

Definitions for paraldehyde

noun

1. a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C 6 H 12 O 3 , 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.

Origin of paraldehyde

First recorded in 1855-60; par- + aldehyde

Examples for paraldehyde

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.

The substance investigated was acetaldehyde, C2H4O, in its relation to paraldehyde, a polymeric modification.

paraldehyde may be used, or the bromides in connection with opium if the latter alone is not well borne.

For the same reason the use of paraldehyde in such cases is quite inadmissable.