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How iodoform is distinguished from chloroform?

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Chloroform is a sweet smelling colourless liquid while iodoform is an yellow crystalline solid having a pungent characteristic small. Iodoform gives yellow precipitate with silver nitrate solution. Chloroform does not give precipitate with silver nitrate solution.
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