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n. - A colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent.

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  • But it is ethanol, not paraldehyde that most people are familiar with.
  • Nagle had helped to control him while Baguley had called to Sister for paraldehyde.
  • Quickly he put the screwdriver and the small blue bottle of paraldehyde in his jacket pocket and slipped out, lighting his way with the torch.
  • This was heated with paraldehyde, whereby it was converted into allylpyridine (48 grammes), and this by reduction with sodium yielded alpha-propylpyridine, a body in...
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