Which of the following statements about chloroform is false

It is a colourless, sweet-smelling liquid

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It is almost insoluble in water

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It is highly inflammable

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It can be used as an inhalational anaesthetic agent

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Solution

The correct option is C It is highly inflammable
Chloroform is used as anesthetic, also it is used as solvent. As it can be seen that chloroform has $s p^{3}$ hybridized carbon atom and because of that chloroform has distorted tetrahedral shape (as all attached group are not having same electro negativity).
Hence C is correct answer

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