chloral hydrate
noun
: a bitter white crystalline drug C2H3Cl3O2 used as a hypnotic and sedative or in knockout drops
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Back at the compound, Jones instructed his followers to kill themselves by ingesting Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide and Phenergan that was mixed into Flavor Aid, per Vox.
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Haley Van Horn, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
If administered with alcohol, chloral hydrate is the active ingredient of what was then commonly called a 'Mickey Finn'—knockout drops.
—Town & Country, 28 July 2023
Bleeding and mercury have had their day; cod liver oil and chloral hydrate are already on the wane; alcohol and bullock's blood are now in vogue among the Parisians—the former for fevers and all inflammatory affections, and the latter for anaemia and pulmonary phthisis.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
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Haley Van Horn, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
If administered with alcohol, chloral hydrate is the active ingredient of what was then commonly called a 'Mickey Finn'—knockout drops.
—Town & Country, 28 July 2023
Bleeding and mercury have had their day; cod liver oil and chloral hydrate are already on the wane; alcohol and bullock's blood are now in vogue among the Parisians—the former for fevers and all inflammatory affections, and the latter for anaemia and pulmonary phthisis.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
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“Chloral hydrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chloral%20hydrate. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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