Bunny56

How about melting sodium formate (made from formic acid and sodium carbonate) - it melts at 253C which is doable. Electrolyze that and formic acid will be given off in gaseous form because of the temp. Jes an idea

Do the electrolysis with an excess of NaCl. If the free chlorine escapes the water it will stay chlorine and form with each other. Suck the gas off into a dry container Alternatively suck off the gas into a container with a clean set of water, and viola there's relatively pure hydrochloric acid...from table salt

Take a can of 'canned air' (1,2-Difluoroethane iirc) and flip it up-side down. stick the nozzle in the balloon and fill with the compresed gas. Tie the balloon and it should inflate as the gas heats up (cooling the side of the balloon - or ziploc bag too, to freezing). Eventually it may pop. That gas is not very good to get in you (although by far not the worst )

Don't forget that Chloroform has special storing procedures. Like H2O2 one is supposed to store it in a brown bottle away from light and too much heat/UV radiation. A natural decomposition product is the deadly nerve gas phosgene Or so I've read anyways...it starts decomposing after about two weeks. Also it is metabolized in the body to phosgene which is bad for teh liver apparently. wouldn't want to e'er get a breathful of that particular gas