0 a clear liquid with a sweet smell that makes you unconscious if you breathe it in --
1 to make someone unconscious using chlorofom: --
At the time, ether and chloroform were being tried as anaesthetics, so the proponents of mesmerism may have faced some jealous rivals.
The chloroform-bottle is constructed so that the liquid comes out in single drops.
Samples were extracted with one-third volume of chloroform: isoamyl alcohol (24:1) mix and centrifuged to separate phases.
The supernatants were extracted by phenol or phenol/chloroform and precipitated by ethanol.
Extracts were evaporated to dryness in vacuo, reconstituted in water, chloroform added (1:1 v/v), vortexed, centrifuged, and the aqueous layer recovered.
The neutral lipids were eluted with 20 ml chloroform, followed by elution of the polar lipids with 30 ml methanol.
A year later he died, without benefit of chloroform.
Two phenol : chloroform and one chloroform :isoamyl alcohol (24 : 1) extractions were then performed.
