a heavy colourless liquid substance with a sweetish taste and an odour resembling that of chloroform. Formula: CHBr3
Systematic name: tribromomethane
bromoform in American English
(ˈbrouməˌfɔrm)
noun
Chemistry
a colorless, heavy liquid, CHBr3, used chiefly as an intermediate in organic synthesis
Word origin
[1870–75; bromo- + (chloro)form]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: billing, fifth wheel, linkage, upgrade, washoutbromo- is a combining form used in the names of chemical compounds in which bromine is present.Other words that use the affix bromo- include: bromoacetone, bromocriptine, bromouracil, tetrabromofluorescein, tribromoethanol
Examples of 'bromoform' in a sentence
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Chloroform and bromoform are the most important trihalomethanes found in drinking water.
Messaouda Khallef, Recep Liman, İbrahim Hakkı Ciğerci, Muhsin Konuk 2015, 'The alkaline comet assay used in evaluation of genotoxic damage of drinking waterdisinfection by-products (bromoform and chloroform)', Frontiers in Geneticshttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fgene.2015.01.00021/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It included chloroform, bromodichloromethane, chlorodibromomethane and bromoform.
Carien Nothnagel, Karsten Kotte, J J (Kobus) Pienaar, P G (Pieter) van Zyl, J P (Paul)Beukes 2008, 'Disinfection by-products and extractable organic compounds in South African tap water',The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africahttp://www.td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/170. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Chloroform, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane and bromoform are the mostimportant trihalomethanes found in potable water.
Maria Y Tominaga, Antonio F Midio 1999, 'Exposição humana a trialometanos presentes em água tratada Human exposure to trihalomethanesin drinking water', Revista de Saúde Públicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101999000400013. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The extraction by the bromoform confirms the presence of these tephras.
Elhoucine Essefi, Samir Mefteh, Mounir Medhioub, Chokri Yaich 2014, 'Magnetic Study of the Heated and Unheated Sedimentary Fillings of Sebkha Mhabeul,Southeast Tunisia: A Geophysical Method for Paleoclimatic Investigation and TephrochronologicalDating', International Journal of Geophysicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/908395. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Halogenated 14,15-cyclopropanovindoline was prepared by reactions with iodoform and bromoform, respectively, in the presence of diethylzinc.
András Keglevich, Szabolcs Mayer, Réka Pápai, Áron Szigetvári, Zsuzsanna Sánta, MiklósDékány, Csaba Szántay, Péter Keglevich, László Hazai 2018, 'Attempted Synthesis of Vinca Alkaloids Condensed with Three-Membered Rings', Moleculeshttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2574. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Compared to earlier studies, our global fluxes are at the lower end of estimates, especially for bromoform.
F. Ziska, B. Quack, K. Abrahamsson, S. D. Archer, E. Atlas, T. Bell, J. H. Butler,L. J. Carpenter, C. E. Jones, N. R. P. Harris, H. Hepach, K. G. Heumann, C. Hughes,J. Kuss, K. Krüger, P. Liss, R. M. Moore, A. Orlikowska, S. Raimund, C. E. Reeves,W. Reifenhäuser, A. D. Robinson, C. Schall, T. Tanhua, S. Tegtmeier, S. Turner, L.Wang, D. Wallace, J. Williams, H. Yamamoto, S. Yvon-Lewis, Y. Yokouchi 2013, 'Global sea-to-air flux climatology for bromoform, dibromomethane and methyl iodide',Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicshttp://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/8915/2013/acp-13-8915-2013.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All experiments lead to the observed subsurface maximum of bromoform, corresponding to the subsurface phytoplankton biomass maximum.
I. Hense, B. Quack 2009, 'Modelling the vertical distribution of bromoform in the upper water column of thetropical Atlantic Ocean', Biogeoscienceshttp://www.biogeosciences.net/6/535/2009/bg-6-535-2009.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A steroidal 17-carboxylic acid was first synthesized as a norpregnene precursor by the bromoform reaction and subsequent acetylation.
Gergő Mótyán, László Mérai, Márton Attila Kiss, Zsuzsanna Schelz, Izabella Sinka,István Zupkó, Éva Frank 2018, 'Microwave-assisted synthesis of biologically relevant steroidal 17-exo-pyrazol-5'-onesfrom a norpregnene precursor by a side-chain elongation/heterocyclization sequence',Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistryhttps://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.14.236. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Further, the experimental results showed that increasing the concentration of bromide ions enhances the formation of dibromochloromethane and bromoform.
Bahman Ramavandi, Sima Farjadfard, Mehdi Ardjmand, Sina Dobaradaran 2015, 'Effect of water quality and operational parameters on trihalomethanes formation potentialin Dez River water, Iran', Water Resources and Industryhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212371715000244. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)