Francis A. Carey
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LOCATION: Charlottesville, VA, United States
Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Author of Organic Chemistry and others.
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Chloroform (CHCl3), nonflammable, clear, colourless liquid that is denser than water and has a pleasant etherlike odour. It was first prepared in 1831. The Scottish physician Sir James Simpson of the University of Edinburgh was the first to use it as an anesthetic in 1847. It later captured public…
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