Paraldehyde
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...to induce sleep, and is also used to calm psychiatric patients. Like alcohol and other depressants it is addictive (see drug addiction and drug abuse ). Paraldehyde is also used in the manufacture of synthetic resins, as a preservative, and...