Word Meanings - CHLOROFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

• Resiniferous
  Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.
• Alkalization
  The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
• Taster
  One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
• Extensively
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• ALCOHOLOMETRICALCOHOLOMETRICALALCOHOLMETRICAL
  Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.
• Formation
  The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
• Formidability
  Formidableness.
• Formulate
  To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• Liquidity
  The state or quality of being liquid.
• Alcoholometry
  The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
• Resiniform
  Having the form of resin.
• Alkalized
  of Alkalize
• Treated
  of Treat
• Externally
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• ALKALIFLAT
  A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.
• Formative
  Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.
• Formidable
  Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
• Formulation
  The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
• Havener
  A harbor master.

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