Bromine - Wikiparency

# Bromine ## 🧊 Bromine · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Br&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Bromine"></iframe> *Bromine in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Br)  !Bromine plate.svg *Plate 35 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. Real Wikipedia articles only.* - Dead Sea - world's richest bromine source and brine chemistry - Halogen chemistry - bromine's extreme reactivity and group trends - Brominated flame retardants - historical uses and environmental concerns ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `1,2-Dibromoethane` · `2C-B` · `4-Bromomethcathinone` · `A_Greek–English_Lexicon` · `A_Latin_Dictionary` · `Aaldert_Wapstra` · [[Actinium]] · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · `Alkene` · [[Aluminium]] · `Aluminium_bromide` · [[Americium]] · `Anaphrodisiac` · `Anticonvulsant` · [[Antimony]] · `Antoine_Jérôme_Balard` · [[Argon]] · `Aromaticity` · [[Arsenic]] · `Asparagopsis_taxiformis` · [[Astatine]] · `Atmosphere` · `Atomic_electron_transition` · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_radius` · `Azeotrope` · `Azide` · `Bacteria` · `Bad_Kreuznach` · `Barbiturate` · [[Barium]] · `Basement_membrane` · `Benzene` · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · `Bifluoride` · [[Bismuth]] · `Block_(periodic_table)` · [[Bohrium]] · 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Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Bromine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine).  ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Br - 35 | | Group - Period - Block | 17 - 4 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | 79.904 | | Density (g/cm3) | 3.1028 | | Melting - Boiling (K) | 265.8 - 332.0 | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | 2.96 | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | 2.4 | | Origin | primordial | | Phase (STP) | liquid | | Name origin | Greek bromos, 'stench' | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Bromine was first isolated in 1826 by French chemist Antoine-Jérôme Balard by distilling the residues of saltworks brine that he had treated with chlorine. Balard named it "bromine" from the Greek word "bromos," meaning stench, referring to the element's acrid, highly toxic fumes. The element is unique among the nonmetallic elements in being a liquid at room temperature; it exists as volatile, reddish-brown liquid droplets that evaporate readily into poisonous vapor. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, bromine was primarily extracted from ocean brine using energy-intensive distillation, making it more expensive than most metals [model-prior - verify]. Bromine is a halogen element with highly reactive chemistry, forming compounds with nearly every other element. It does not occur in elemental form in nature; instead, it exists as bromide salts dissolved in seawater and in certain mineral deposits [model-prior - verify]. The Dead Sea is the world's richest bromine source, containing roughly 50 times more bromine than normal seawater [model-prior - verify]. Historically, the dominant use of bromine was in flame-retardant compounds added to plastics, textiles, and electronics; however, environmental and health concerns have gradually restricted these applications [model-prior - verify]. Modern uses include water purification, photographic and diagnostic chemistry, fumigants, and chemical synthesis. In the corpus, bromine represents the halogens' extreme reactivity and the periodic table's progressive increase in reactivity as one moves up a group. Bromine's association with brine and saltworks connects it to ancient mineral resource extraction and salt chemistry, while its declining use in flame retardants reflects evolving environmental and health standards. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Br, group 17, period 4), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment. ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Selenium|Selenium (34)]] - [[Krypton|Krypton (36)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Bromine) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*