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chloroform in Chinese

chloroform in Chinese is 氯仿 — chloroform means a sweet-smelling, colourless liquid chemical once used as an anaesthetic and still used today as an industrial solvent.

chloroform in Chinese

氯仿
noun
Pronounced: lǜ fǎng
(organic compound) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

What does "chloroform" mean?

  1. noun A sweet-smelling, colourless liquid chemical once used as an anaesthetic and still used today as an industrial solvent.
    "Chloroform was commonly used to put patients under before modern anaesthetics were developed."
  2. verb To knock someone unconscious using chloroform.
    "In the old film, the villain chloroforms his victim with a soaked cloth."
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chloroform in a sentence

  • Chloroform was commonly used to put patients under before modern anaesthetics were developed.
  • In the old film, the villain chloroforms his victim with a soaked cloth.

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What is "chloroform" in Chinese?

"chloroform" in Chinese is 氯仿. chloroform means: A sweet-smelling, colourless liquid chemical once used as an anaesthetic and still used today as an industrial solvent.

How do you pronounce 氯仿?

"chloroform" in Chinese is 氯仿, pronounced "lǜ fǎng".

How do you use "chloroform" in a sentence?

Example: "Chloroform was commonly used to put patients under before modern anaesthetics were developed." In Chinese, "chloroform" is 氯仿.

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