chloroform

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If she had too many cases close to the end of her shift, she'd have to drive home buzzed on chloroform fumes.

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Quick take

To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chloroform.

verb

To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

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.

Example sentences

If she had too many cases close to the end of her shift, she'd have to drive home buzzed on chloroform fumes.

For example, chloroform is a standard solvent used in the synthesis of LSD.

This is also why spot removers like ether and chloroform work as anesthetics.

Had to have a multi-turn dialog to convince it I wasn’t trying chloroform anyone and was just watching a movie.

Many hyperpolarization experiments with para-hydrogen prefer nasty solvents as chloroform or methanol.

Full disclosure, I'm doing the chemistry in a rented chemistry lab space because I don't want to suffocate myself with chloroform.

CO2 would be better than CH4, but since chlorine is involved, are we talking about chloroform or DCM, or the like?

If you find yourself in such a circumstance, the best evidence you could collect is probably evidence that searching for chloroform doesn't correlate with criminal activity.

But the regulation seems fair to me wrt what's actually required to keep TCE, asbestos, Freon, chloroform, etc out of our soil and water.

For short trips, only chloroform is administered.

She told us stories of the old days counting the pulse of patients, holding an eye dropper full of chloroform to add to the gauze mask over the patient's face when the pulse got too fast.

They included several types of phthalates, chemicals used to make plastics flexible; chloroform, a toxic byproduct from disinfecting water with chlorine; and toluene, a hazardous substance found in vehicle exhaust.

Quote examples

If your search for “chloroform” is accompanied by the purchase of ingredients to make chloroform, posession of a bunch of rags that smell like choloroform, etc., then your chances look less rosy.

Ironically, if I’d just said “how did people knock someone out with chloroform in the 1930s?” it would have just told me.

I in fact searched for "chloroform" because I wanted to read the Wikipedia page.

I just love how it's categorized under "Occupational Health & Safety Products." Does this mean I can list my chloroform under the "Cosmetics" category too?