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Chloroform is a solvent for many substances, including fats, oils, rubber, alkaloids, waxes, gutta-percha, and resins. It has been used as an anesthetic, an insect fumigant, a cleansing agent, and in fire extinguishers (to depress the freezing point of carbon tetrachloride). This compound is usually the major trihalomethane found in chlorinated water.
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Middleditch, B.S., Missler, S.R., Hines, H.B. (1981). Chloroform. In: Mass Spectrometry of Priority Pollutants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3788-1_13
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