iodoform

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a pale yellow crystalline compound, CHI₃, with a strong odor, formerly used as an antiseptic

   The characteristic smell of iodoform lingered in the old surgery.

Formed from iodo- + -form and modeled on chloroform, whose molecule it resembles with iodine atoms replacing chlorine. The systematic chemical name is triiodomethane.

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