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  2. Chlorine dioxide - Wikipedia

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    Chlorine dioxide is also superior to chlorine when operating above pH 7, [17]: 4–33 in the presence of ammonia and amines, [28] and for the control of biofilms in water distribution systems. [25] Chlorine dioxide is used in many industrial water treatment applications as a biocide, including cooling towers, process water, and food processing ...

  3. Chlordiazepoxide - Wikipedia

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    Chlordiazepoxide, sold under the brand name Librium among others, is a sedative and hypnotic medication of the benzodiazepine class. It is used to treat anxiety, insomnia and symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol, benzodiazepines, and other drugs.

  4. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviations of weights and measures are pronounced using the expansion of the unit (mg = "milligram") and chemical symbols using the chemical expansion (NaCl = "sodium chloride"). Some initialisms deriving from Latin may be pronounced either as letters ( qid = "cue eye dee") or using the English expansion ( qid = "four times a day").

  5. Inhalational anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    Cyclopropane is explosive and is no longer used for safety reasons, although otherwise it was found to be an excellent anaesthetic. Xenon is odorless (odourless) and rapid in onset, but is expensive and requires specialized equipment to administer and monitor.

  6. Nerve agent - Wikipedia

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    Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs. The disruption is caused by the blocking of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter.

  7. Benzodiazepine - Wikipedia

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    Since the release of nonbenzodiazepines, also known as z-drugs, in 1992 in response to safety concerns, individuals with insomnia and other sleep disorders have increasingly been prescribed nonbenzodiazepines (2.3% in 1993 to 13.7% of Americans in 2010), less often prescribed benzodiazepines (23.5% in 1993 to 10.8% in 2010).

  8. Somnifacient - Wikipedia

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    Somnifacient (from Latin somnus, sleep [1]), also known as sedatives or sleeping pills, is a class of medications that induces sleep. It is mainly used for treatment of insomnia . Examples of somnifacients include benzodiazepines , barbiturates and antihistamines .

  9. Mouthwash - Wikipedia

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    Range of mouthwashes by Listerine. Mouthwash, mouth rinse, oral rinse, or mouth bath [1] is a liquid which is held in the mouth passively or swirled around the mouth by contraction of the perioral muscles and/or movement of the head, and may be gargled, where the head is tilted back and the liquid bubbled at the back of the mouth.