Bromoform
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| Bromoform | |
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| Chemical name | Tribromomethane |
| Chemical formula | CHBr3 |
| Molecular mass | 252.73 g/mol |
| CAS number | [75-25-2] |
| Density | 2.899 g/cm3 at 15 °C |
| Melting point | 8.0 °C |
| Boiling point | 149 °C |
| SMILES | C(Br)(Br)Br |
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Bromoform (CHBr3) is a pale yellowish liquid with a sweet odor, a halomethane. Small amounts are formed naturally by plants in the ocean. It is somewhat soluble in water and readily evaporates into the air. Most of the bromoform that enters the environment is formed as byproducts when chlorine is added to drinking water to kill bacteria.
Only small quantities of bromoform are currently produced industrially in the United States. In the past, it was used as a solvent and flame retardant, but now it is mainly used as a laboratory reagent.
Bromoform is one of the trihalomethanes closely related with fluoroform, chloroform and iodoform.
External links
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