Not exact matches
Take a collection of leaves and
make leaf skeletons — soak the leaves in washing soda until the
chloroform disintegrates and you are left with the leaf structure.
Led by physicist Roberto Serra of the Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil, the experimenters manipulated molecules of
chloroform, which are
made of carbon, hydrogen and chlorine atoms.
The discovery that CFCs — as well as halons, carbon tetrachloride, methyl chloride, methyl
chloroform, and methyl bromides (collectively grouped as ozone depleting substances [ODS]-RRB--- were so damaging to the ozone,
made worldwide headlines.