Chloroform - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: chloroformChloroform
Chloroform, administering. It is a felony for any person to administer of attempt to administer chloroform, or other stupefying drug, within tent to enable himself or another to commit, or to assist another in the commission of, any indictable offence.-Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 22. Procuring defilement of a woman by administering drugs, see (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), s. 3....
Bromoform
A colorless liquid CHBr3 having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit alcohol or acetone as also by certain other reactions In composition it is the same as chloroform with the substitution of bromine for chlorine It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects...
Bromal
An oily colorless fluid CBr3COH related to bromoform as chloral is to chloroform and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol...
Chlorodyne
A patent anodyne medicine containing opium chloroform Indian hemp etc...
Chloroform
A colorless volatile liquid CHCl3 having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali It is a powerful solvent of wax resin etc and is extensively used to produce anaeligsthesia in surgical operations also externally to alleviate pain...
Iodoform
A yellow crystalline volatile substance CI3H having an offensive odor and sweetish taste and analogous to chloroform It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores...
Nitro chloroform
Same as Chlorpicrin...
Nitroform
A nitro derivative of methane analogous to chloroform obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance CHNO23 quite explosive and having well defined acid properties...
pyrrol
A nitrogenous heterocyclic base found in coal tar bone oil and other distillates of organic substances and also produced synthetically as a colorless liquid C4H5N having on odor like that of chloroform It is the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives So called because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a deep red...
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