What is chloroform used for?

The kidnapping thing only works in the movies. As an anaesthetic, chloroform is much too slow to be effective. There is no way you could just clap a chloroform-soaked cloth over someone's face and they would immediately go to sleep.

Like most such compounds, chloroform was originally created as a byproduct of chemical research. It was found to have certain useful properties (including anaesthesia) and ways were then developed to produce the material in quantity. It was commonly used as an anaesthetic, a solvent, a fire extinguishing material, and as a chemical reagent for use in synthetic reactions. Its primary use now is as an organic solvent (that's as in organic chemistry, not organic farming... big difference!).

The molecule of chloroform is composed of one H atom and three Cl atoms attached to a single C atom, so it has the molecular formula CHCl3.

Like essentially all such halocarbon molecules (halo- for the halogen atoms like Cl, I, Br, and F, and carbon for...well...carbon), chloroform has been found to have a number of undesirable effects such as being cancer-causing, poisonous, and contributing to smog and the destruction of the ozone layer (it is after all a very reactive material whose use became common before any of these ill effects were realized). As a result, the use of chloroform today is very restricted.

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Chloroform is not an effective sedative for crime. This issue has been studied over the past 150 years, and the experts are unanimous. As an anesthetic, it takes several minutes to kick in. It's much slower than the other gases we use today. So, it would take a lot of force to get the person (who most certainly will not cooperate) to inhale it. Probably easier just to tie them up. In addition, even if you knock them out, unless you keep applying the chloroform over the face, they will wake up in a few minutes. Unless you kill them, which is probably a more likely occurrence. Chloroform can trigger fatal heart rhythms, especially when there is a lot of adrenaline in the blood, which a kidnap victim will probably have. If you don't kill them, in an anesthetized state their tongue will fall back and they will obstruct their breathing. So they can easily die if you don't know how to support their nap. Anesthesia is not just taking a nap.

Regarding the article "What is Chloroform" why is it not banned altogether? and why are movies allowed to show its use for kidnapping if it is so dangerous?

As i see there is also a suggestion that it might be used as a drug? if so why are the schools not listing it as Banned Substances?

In case someone drink chloroform unknowingly or mistakenly, what will happen and what steps need to take to keep body safe?

To make movies

Chloroform can dissolve rubber and is used in certain dental procedures.

fun fact if you inhale it tell you are aboult to pass out you get high off it.

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