Chloral hydrate, a white crystalline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.
Chlo"ral*am`ide (?), n. [Chloral + amide.] (Chem.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
Chlo"ral*ism (?), n. (Med.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.
Chlor`al"um (?), n. [Chlorine + aluminium.] An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
Chlor`an"il (?), n. [Chlorine + aniline.] (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.
Chlo"rate (?), n. [Cf. F. chlorate. See Chlorine.] (Chem.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.
Chlor`au"rate (?), n. [Chlorine + aurate.] (Chem.) See Aurochloride.
Chlor`hy"dric (?), a. [Chlorine + hydrogen + -ic.] (Chem.) Same as Hydrochloric.
Chlor`hy"drin (?), n. (Chem.) One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.
Chlo"ric (?), a. [From Chlorine.] Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
Chloric ether (Chem.), ethylene dichloride. See Dutch liquid, under Dutch.
Chlo"ri*date (?), v. t. To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.
Chlo"ride (?), n. (Chem.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.
Chlo*rid"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.
Chlo"rid*ize (?), v. t. See Chloridate.
Chlo*rim"e*try (?), n. See Chlorometry.
Chlo"rin*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chlorinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chlorinating.] (Chem.) To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.
Chlo`ri*na"tion (?), n. The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
Chlo"rine (?), n. [Gr. &?; pale green, greenish yellow. So named from its color. See Yellow.] (Chem.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiarities.
Chlor`i*od"ic (?), a. Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.