Periodic Table · element
Bromine
Br · Z 35
- atomic number
- 35
- atomic mass
- 79.904
- notation
- Br
- group
- 17: Fluorine
- period
- 4
- state0c
- Liquid
- state20c
- Liquid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 3.1028
- melting pt
- -7
- boiling pt
- 58.8
- discovered
- 1825
- abundance
- 2.4
- bio class
- Ultratrace
- bio role
- Required to cross-link collagen IV in basement membranes — shown in 2014, which makes it the most recently established essential element.
- ore grade
- 5000
- ore minerals
- in Dead Sea and Arkansas brines
- mined as
- Primary
extraction
Concentrated brine is oxidised with chlorine and the bromine blown out with steam or air. Two sources — the Dead Sea and the Smackover formation under Arkansas — supply almost all of it.
categories
#Nonmetal#Halogens#Diatomicnonmetal
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