Bromine (frae [βρῶμος, brómos] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), meanin "strang-smellin" or "stench")[3] is a chemical element wi the seembol Br, an atomic nummer o 35. It is in the halogen group (17). The element wis isolatit independently bi twa chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig an Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825–1826. Elemental bromine is a fumin reid-broun liquid at ruim temperatur, corrosive an toxic, wi properties atween those o chlorine an iodine. Free bromine daes nae occur in naitur, but occurs as colorless soluble crystalline mineral halide sauts, analogous tae table saut.
↑Turner, Edward (1828). Elements of chemistry: including the recent discoveries and doctrines of the science. p. 467. The name first applied to it by its discoverer is muride; but it has since been changed to brome..from the Greek βρῶμος signifying a strong or rank odour. This appellation may in the English language be properly converted into that of Bromine.
