Sentence examples for chloral from inspiring English sources

In certain strains of mosses, the gametophyte can give rise to clusters of presumably haploid sporophytes without the functioning of gametes; such apogamous formation of sporophytes may also be chemically induced (by application of a solution containing a specific amount of chloral hydrate to both the protonema and leafy shoots).

Chloral hydrate, a derivative of ethyl alcohol, was introduced in 1869 as a synthetic sedative-hypnotic; it was used notoriously as "knock-out" drops.

Chlorobenzene reacts readily with chlorine, nitric acid, or sulfuric acid, forming dichlorobenzenes, chloronitrobenzenes, or chlorobenzenesulfonic acids, respectively, and with chloral in the presence of sulfuric acid to form DDT, an insecticide.

Rossetti responded temperately in "The Stealthy School of Criticism," published in the Athenaeum; but the attack, combined with remorse and the amount of chloral and alcohol he now took for insomnia, brought about his collapse in 1872.

Injectable anesthetics were introduced in 1872 by French surgeon Pierre-Cyprien Oré, who used chloral hydrate to produce general anesthesia.

Most noteworthy among these writings were his series of papers on the nitrogen content of bases, joint work with Wöhler on the benzoyl radical (1832) and on the degradation products of urea (1837), the discovery of chloral (trichloroethanal, 1832), the identification of the ethyl radical (1834), the preparation of acetaldehyde (ethanal, 1835), and the hydrogen theory of organic acids (1838).

Chloral hydrate (trichloroacetaldehyde monohydrate) was first synthesized in 1832, but it was not introduced into medicine until 1869, when Mathias E.O.

In 1869 chloral hydrate became the first synthetic sedative-hypnotic (sleep-producing) drug.

Chloral hydrate acts as a depressant on the central nervous system, with sedative effects similar to those of barbiturates.

Chloral hydrate was the primary ingredient, along with alcohol, of the "knockout drops" or "Mickey Finns" of popular lore.

The chloral-hydrate web is a stray collection of strands.