Chloral Definition

Chloral Sentence Examples

• Chloral and potassium bromide may be given as physiological antidotes.

• Dumas, who regarded them as hydrates of olefiant gas (ethylene); on the other they yielded chloroform, chloral and aldehyde, as well as other compounds of less general interest, and also the method of forming mirrors by depositing silver from a slightly ammoniacal solution by acet aldehyde.

• Similarly, the formation of organic halogen products may be effected by electrolytic chlorine, as, for example, in the production of chloral by the gradual introduction of alcohol into an anode cell in which the electrolyte is a strong solution of potassium chloride.

• Chlorine oxidizes it to acetaldehyde, and under certain conditions chloral is formed.

• On the 4th of December 1893, having been accidentally given an overdose of chloral, he died at Hindhead.