How does chloroform knock people out?

Answer 1

attaches itself to O2 coming into the body and blocks it from getting into the brain, thus causing the person to pass out, sort of like a chemical choke hold

Answer 2

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As might be expected from its use as an anesthetic, inhaling chloroform vapors depresses the central nervous system. Breathing about 900 parts of chloroform per million parts air (900 parts per million) for a short time can cause dizziness, fatigue, and headache. Chronic chloroform exposure may cause damage to the liver (where chloroform is metabolized to phosgene) and to the kidneys, and some people develop sores when the skin is immersed in chloroform. Approximately 10% of the population has an allergic reaction to chloroform that produces a fever of around 40°C (104°F) upon exposure.
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By it's chemical makeup, I would guess that it's chlorine displaces oxygen absorption and bonds to blood. Since chlorine is a toxin, unconsciousness occurs.
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Answer 3

The breakdown products in air include phosgene and hydrogen chloride, which are both toxic.
Breathing about 900 parts of chloroform per million parts air (900 ppm) for a short time can cause dizziness, fatigue, and headache. Breathing air, eating food, or drinking water containing high levels of chloroform for long periods of time may damage your liver and kidneys. Large amounts of chloroform can cause sores when chloroform touches your skin.

It isn't known whether chloroform causes reproductive effects or birth defects in people.

Animal studies have shown that miscarriages occurred in rats and mice that breathed air containing 30 to 300 ppm chloroform during pregnancy and also in rats that ate chloroform during pregnancy. Offspring of rats and mice that breathed chloroform during pregnancy had birth defects. Abnormal sperm were found in mice that breathed air containing 400 ppm chloroform for a few days.

Answer 4

It reacts as an anesthetic, it numbs at first, but then you feel that "knocked-out" feeling, its only disadvantages are its pungent, unpleasant odor and its tendency to cause vomiting. Trichloroethylene, a halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon related to chloroform, was proposed as a safer alternative, though it, too, was later found to be carcinogenic.

Answer 5

cuts off the oxygen supply to the brain i would suppose i could look it up but am to lazy i got about a gallon of the stuff but rarely use it lol

Answer 6

It's a Hollywood secret.

Answer 7

Its a toxin, the SMELL

Answer 8

its aromatic nature

Answer 9

BREATH IT IN... OUT YOU GO..