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What is with the moralistic non-footnote about GHB? Not that I have qualms, or wish to malign a well intending vigilante author, but this is an encyclopaedia and that is absolutely inappropriate. Raise ire on the GHB page. 71.232.31.175 (talk) 05:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I deleted a recipe for home made chloral hydrate. I'd be happy to discuss it but it is hard for me to imagine any use for that formula that would not endanger some one. Alteripse 20:54, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Chloral Hydrate lab found on property. Questions.

Maybe one of you can help me. A relative of mine purchased some mountain property that had what looked to be the remains of an old Meth Lab on it. We had the property cleaned out and in the process came across a recipe for "Knock Out Drops" or Chloral Hydrate. Sure enough, all of the needed equipment had been there to produce that particular drug. Compelling evidence was also found that meth was made there. My question is, are the two drugs often used or sold together? Is the Chloral Hydrate used to reduce the anxiety brought on by the meth? I can't figure out why these guys went to such elaborate lengths to make Chloral Hydrate- as this seems to have been the main drug they were making. And, yes my mind has wandered to the more sinister scenario of these hillbillies buying local women drinks at the bars, slipping them "Mickies" then dragging them back to the cabin... I'm hoping they were just selling the stuff since there was so much equipment and so many vials and small jars. Any thoughts?

Im wondering if anyone can tell me how much of it you would have to take for it to kill you..my grandmother died of overdose.123.3.1.82 03:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)ac

[edit] Structural formula

Isn't the Chloral Hydrate structural formula supposed to have an extra hydrogen at the 1 position, like the Chloral one? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.41.204.3 (talk • contribs) 18:28, 21 June 2006.

In organic structural formulas, hydrogen atoms bound to carbon are implicit (see Structural formula: "line drawings of structural formula are assumed to have carbon atoms at the vertices and termini of all line segments not marked with the atomic symbol of an element (other than carbon). Each carbon atom is in turn assumed to bear enough hydrogen atoms to give the carbon atom four bonds.") 193.217.163.93 11:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

The formulae match those in PubChem - Chloral and Chloral hydrate. Colin°^Talk 22:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Except that PubChem's drawing does not pretend to be 3-dimensional. Since Wiki's drawing shows C2 as tetrahedral, C1 should also be shown as tetrahedral and the -OH pointing up should be shown either in front of or behind the plane of the drawing. Dirac66 19:05, 28 October 2007 (UTC) ==

[edit] References

[1]--Stone (talk) 11:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

I have moved the following section here because it contains non-encyclopedic trivia and completely lacks any context (which makes iit hard to determine notability), see WP:TRIVIA. Cacycle (talk) 17:15, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

== Chloral hydrate in fiction and film ==
* [[Bram Stoker]], "[[Dracula]]," 1897
* [[Edith Wharton]], "[[The House of Mirth]]." New York, C. Schribner’s Sons, 1905.
* [[Evelyn Waugh]], ''[[Vile Bodies]].'' London, Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1930.
* [[Margery Allingham]], "[[The Case of the Late Pig]]." Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.
* [[Agatha Christie]], "[[And Then There Were None]]." Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940.
* [[Rex Stout]], "[[The Final Deduction]]," Chapter 7. Viking Press, 1961.
* [[From Russia with Love]], movie, 1963.
* [[Roger Zelazny]], "[[Lord of Light]]", 1967.
* [[Jimmy Breslin]], "[[The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight]]," 1969.
* [[Larry Gelbart]], "[[M*A*S*H*]]" TV-Series, Season 3, 1974.
* [[The Living Daylights]], movie, 1987.
* [[Caleb Carr]], "[[The Alienist]]." Random House, 1994.
* [[Sarah Waters]], ''[[Affinity (novel)|Affinity]]''. London: [[Virago Press]], 1999.
* [[Oz (TV series)|Oz]], TV-Series, Multiple episodes,(Handicap used by Ryan O'Reilly)
* [[David Shore]], "[[House M.D.]]" TV-Series, Season 1, 2004.
* [[The Venture Brothers]], TV-Series, Season 1, Episode 4, 2004
* [[Taxi Driver]], [[Martin Scorsese]], Travis is offered this by gun dealer
* [[Thomas Pynchon]], [[Against the Day]], London, Vintage Books, 2007.
* [[Joanne Harris]], [[Sleep Pale Sister]], Black Swan 2004.