Chloroform 2.51

Chloroform is an important industrial product. There are two grade of chloroform. Anaesthatic amd technical grade chloroform or trichloromethane is at ordinary temp and pr. a heavy water , white volatile liq.
Having a pleasant, etheric, non irritant odor. It is not flammable but the hot vapour in a mixture with vapourised alcohol burns with a green organic solvent & lightly soluble in water, chloroform decompose at ordinary temp in sunlight in the absence of air and in the dark when air is present boiling point of chloroform is 61.3 digri C.