chloroform

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic. uncountable
    — Some assume that chloroform is a gas because it was given by inhalation.
动词 v.
  1. To treat, or to render unconscious, with chloroform. transitive
    — Geoffrey was first chloroformed, I think. The hand that picked Nipper up to dispose of him had certainly touched chloroform just before. Drugged; does that bring us nearer by taking us further away, I wonder?

词形变化

chloroforms present,singular,third-person chloroforming participle,present chloroformed participle,past chloroformed past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French chloroforme, portmanteau of terchloride (tertiary chloride, trichloride) and formyle (CH, an obsolete radical of formic acid) by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from 1834. By surface analysis, chloro- + -form.
词源 2
Borrowed from French chloroforme, portmanteau of terchloride (tertiary chloride, trichloride) and formyle (CH, an obsolete radical of formic acid) by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from 1834. By surface analysis, chloro- + -form.
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