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I know that this is partially a joke, but I was trying to figure out what kind of lab would be done to produce chloroform that would be appropriate for students (recent OSHA crackdown on chloromethanes notwithstanding)... haloform reaction I suppose? Is that a common teaching lab experiment?
It's easy to knock someone out with chloroform, and many many other chemicals.
The hard part is getting them to wake up later
As far as I know it's not that easy. The...test person has to take quite some breaths of it until it shows some effect
Exactly, the movie trope is very wrong in the mechanism of action. This is no schience meme
Indeed. People don't just go limp, there is enough time to slip away. And you wake up pretty quick if you don't keep breathing it in.
Back when they actually used ether and chloroform as anesthesia, they had this little metal cage they'd put over the patient mouth to extend it away from the mouth, which would be wrapped in gauze and then have ether or chloroform dripping down to keep it going.
And if you try to speed it up by using more, you're likely to kill the patient since it depresses the central nervous system.
with chlorodeform
Pretty much any of the halogens will do this
"Hey does this smell like chloroform to you?"
Are we just ignoring the fingernail that looks like it got smashed with a hammer
Nail polish
Are we gonna ignore that fingernail looks like it was smashed with a jar of nail polish?
Nailed it