chloroform
IPA: kɫˈɔrʌfɔrm
noun
- (organic chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.
verb
- To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.
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Examples of "chloroform" in Sentences
- Chloroform was toxic to the liver.
- Inadvertent formation of chloroform.
- And chloroform risks killing the victim.
- Also the advent of ether and chloroform.
- It is also readily soluble in chloroform.
- It is soluble in chloroform and carbon disulfide.
- Chloroform was first used as an anesthetic in 1847.
- Chloroform is the organic compound with formula CHCl3.
- Examples of organohalides are carbon tetrachloride and chloroform.
- He died on the operating table of an overdose of chloroform, an anesthetic.
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