bromine

Yes; bromine is one of many scary elements we over-use.

If I was caught getting off the plane I'd tell them it was bromine because cow's blood would be disallowed by customs.

I wonder why Bromkonvention didn't raise the price of bromine to just under what Dow was selling at?

> emit bromine gasWouldn’t that require some kind of nuclear reaction/alchemy?

I don’t think anything humans are normally exposed to contains bromine.

One of the those chemicals is called deca bromine and is considered to be extremely hazardous.

Chlorine is available in quantity, but fluorine, bromine, and iodine are not.

"The bromine industry has not done a very good job in PR, in educating people that there are chemicals there that save your life and keep you safe.

But what do you do when energy use goes up?And despite people saying there is bromine and iodine in the ocean, there is no practical way to get it out of the ocean in quantity.

> chemists experimenting at a nuclear accelerator in Vancouver observed that a reaction between bromine and muonium—a hydrogen isotope—slowed down when they increased the temperatureIsn't saying muonium is "a hydrogen isotope" sort of like saying a car is "a horse isotope"?

It does make sense to be concerned about food safety, but looking at the components of the constituents tells us nothing about food safety, so as soon as you seen someone wringing their hands about "bromine" rather than the specific bromine compound in the specific quantities used in a specific food product, you know they don't care about food safety.

> There is nothing intrinsically dangerous about bromine.... other than coming into contact with pure Bromine... :P