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Bromine [Ar] 4s2 3d10 4p5 (Halogen Family) Atomic # 35, Atomic Mass 80

Bromine Job Resume

I want to be a water purifier. I am found in nature in compounds called bromides, used to obtain pure bromine and produce bromine products. I am the most reactive element after fluorine and I react with many different substances. I would like to be part of your water purification compound company. I am much like chlorine and can be used as a substitute for cleaning pools and drinking water. I think I would do a great job cleaning water from sinks, to bathtubs, to swimming pools. I hope you consider me. I’m a really great element once you get to know me! A few of my previous jobs include making fumigants, flame proofing agents, and certain dyes and medicines. I was discovered by Antoine Jerome Balard in 1826. In 1825, a German chemistry student C. Löwig was conducting research on water from swamps. After he removed chlorine, he injected chlorine gas into the solution. During this process, a new substance was created- bromine. He isolated the newly discovered bromine through extraction and distillation. French chemist Antoine Jerome Balard discovered bromine in an extract of seaweed from which he had removed chlorine. Ballard developed industrial methods to isolate various salts from seawater. The word bromine comes from the Greek word “bromos” which means smell, referring to the unpleasant odor of bromine. I used to be used mainly to produce ethylene dibromide, which is a constituent of lead-containing fuel. However, I had damaging effects on the environment so this product is no longer used. Some of my other well-known applications include being used in flame-retardants, medicines, photography, oil production, paints, and pesticides. I used to be used in certain drugs called sedatives, which can make people calm down or sleepy. However, these drugs are for the most part no longer found on the market in the U.S. Products containing bromine are often used in agriculture and sanitation, and as fire retardants, or chemicals that help prevent things from catching fire. One of my first known applications of a bromine-containing product is the color purple. It is produced by purple snails and was used by the Romans to paint their clothes purple. I am part of the halogen group, which has elements that are strongly reactive. I form ionic bonds. Two elements I bond well with are potassium and sodium to create potassium bromide and sodium bromide. They are both salts and used to be used as sedatives in the late 19th and 20th century. They are now used as veterinary drugs. Another element I bond well with is hydrogen to create either hydrogen bromide or hydrobromic acid. Hydrobromic acid can be used for the production of alkyl bromides from alcohols.

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