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Iodoform

noun
1.
Sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3.  Synonym: tri-iodomethane.
2.
A yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing.  Synonym: triiodomethane.






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"Iodoform" Quotes from Famous Books



... Acid, 95 cents. Hypodermic tablets, cocaine hydro-chlorate, 1-1/8 grain, making in two drachms sterile water or one per cent solution. (To be used by Physician only.) Alcohol, 80 per cent. Sulpho Napthol. Iodoform gauze. Chloroform liniment. ...
— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson

... the willow-thickets at the bottom of Chocolate Hill; a torn and bullet-pierced French warplane stranded on the other side of Lala Baba—lying over at an angle like a wounded white seabird; the rush for the little figure bringing in "the mails" in a sack over his shoulder; the smell of iodine and iodoform round the hospital-tents; the long wobbling moan of the Turkish long-distance shells, and the harmless "Z-z-z-eee-e-e-o-ooop!" of their "dud" shells which buried themselves so often in the sand without exploding; the tattered, begrimed and sunken-eyed appearance of men who had been ...
— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave



Words linked to "Iodoform" :   haloform, triiodomethane, antiseptic



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