Bromine

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Bromine, Br, chemical number 35, is a liquid in the halogen group of the periodic table, all of the halogens are extremely reactive, bromine is no exception, if you put bromine in a bowl, then add some aluminum, you basically get a nice little bowl of hell. Left alone, bromine will start to sublime into a toxic orange smoke. In liquid state it's a dark red-brown color, but if disolved into water, it becomes a pleasent light orange.

Bromine has very limited uses commercially, except some rare chemical compounds, and as a pool chemical.

There is a small amount of disolved bromine compounds in sea water, which can be isolated through a process of bubbling chlorine gas through it to free bromine from chemical bonds, then using a cooled surface to condense the vapors.

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