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Bromine

Bromine its atomic number is 35 and the mass is 79.904g.This element is a solid and a nonmetal.Bromine was discovered by two chemists Antoine Balard and Carl Jacob Lowig in 1825-1826 Ballard found bromine chemicals in the ash of seweed from the salt morshes of Montpellier in 1826. The seaweed was use to produce iodine but also contained bromine. Bromine is a chemical element with the symbol Br and is in the halogen family.It is also a reddish brown volatile liquid at standard room temperature that is intermediate in reactivity between chlorine and iodide.Bromine vapors are also corrosive and toxic.When Bromine gets out it evaporates very rapidly into a purple-brown choking gas that smells like chlorine. Sodium bromide the bromine anologe of table salt is often used in hot tubes.

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