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A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

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  1. A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.
  2. A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by thedry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic andbenzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.