a heavy volatile liquid with a sweet taste and odour, used as a solvent and cleansing agent and in refrigerants: formerly used as an inhalation anaesthetic. Formula: CHCl3
Systematic name: trichloromethane
Word origin
C19: from chloro- + form(yl) (in an obsolete sense that applied to a CH radical)
Examples of 'trichloromethane' in a sentence
trichloromethane
Trichloromethane, trichloroacetic acid, and dichloroacetic acid were the major drivers of variability.
Shahid Parvez, Kali Frost, Madhura Sundararajan 2017, 'Evaluation of Drinking Water Disinfectant Byproducts Compliance Data as an IndirectMeasure for Short-Term Exposure in Humans', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthhttp://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/5/548. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Two molecules of the title compound as well as two trichloromethane solvent molecules are present in the asymmetric unit.
Wolfgang Imhof, Helmar Görls, Angela Göbel, Roberto Menzel 2008, 'Bis{4-[(3-phenylallylidene)amino]cyclohexyl}methane trichloromethane solvate', Acta Crystallographica Section Ehttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600536808037380. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)