Mineral Species containing Bromine (Br )

Mineral Species containing Bromine (Br )

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Bromine (Br ) by %

Bromine (Br) Element Properties
Atomic Mass 79.904
Atomic Number 35
Name Origins Greek, bromos - "stench."
Year Discovered 1826
Discovery Credits A. J. Balard at Montpellier, France and C. Lowig at Heidelberg in Germany.
Remarks Deep red, dense, sharp smelling liquid, Br2. Compounds used in fuel additives, pesticides, flame-retardants, and photography. Bromine is recovered from sea water and oil field brines.

Diagnostic tests: 
Bromine salts (along with F, Cl, and I) will give a blue color to flames when heated on a copper disk.
Treatment of the salt with concentrated H2SO4 acid will effervesce with the evolution of a brown gas (Br2). Bromine is always found associated with chlorine or iodine so a precipitate with AgNO3 solution is white (AgCl), cream (AgBr), or yellow (AgI) depending on which anion predominates.

References Emsley, J., 1991; THE ELEMENTS : Sec. Ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 251 p.
See Also WebElements, ChemiCool
Naturally Occurring Isotopes
Symbol Isotope Mass Isotope Nuclide Number Isotope Number Natural Abundance Half-life Half-life Units Decay Mode Decay Mode MeV Decay Mode %
Br 78.918336 79 35 50.6900%   Stable      
Br 80.916289 81 35 49.3100%   Stable      
 

Mineral Species sorted by the element Br (Bromine )

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%Br Mineral Name Chemical Formula MW
42.55%Br Bromargyrite   AgBr 187.77
24.13%Br Embolite  * Ag(Br,Cl) 165.55
22.25%Br Kuzminite   Hg2(Br,Cl)2 538.76
17.47%Br Demicheleite-(Br)  ! BiSBr 306.48
14.92%Br Arzakite   Hg3S2(Br,Cl)2 803.48
12.54%Br Kadyrelite   Hg4(Br,Cl)2O 955.94
9.77%Br Grechishchevite   Hg3S2(Br,Cl,I)2 817.84
6.07%Br Lafossaite  ! Tl(Cl,Br) 252.93
6.02%Br Capgaronnite   HgAg(Cl,Br,I)S 398.46
5.26%Br Lavrentievite   Hg3S2(Cl,Br)2 759.03
5.16%Br Iltisite  ! HgSAg(Cl,Br) 387.09
4.15%Br Steropesite  ! Tl3BiCl6 1,077.12
3.80%Br Perroudite   Hg5-xAg4+xS5-x(Cl,I,Br)4+x 1,894.37
3.15%Br Murdochite   PbCu6O8-x(Cl,Br)2x 760.62
2.96%Br Tedhadleyite  ! Hg++Hg+10O4I2(Cl1.16Br0.84)2 2,698.11
2.88%Br Kelyanite   (Hg+2)6(SbO6)BrCl2 2,775.64
2.59%Br Comancheite   Hg13(Cl,Br)8O9 3,079.74
2.51%Br Vasilyevite  ! (Hg2)++10O6I3Cl(CO3) 4,836.00
1.50%Br Panichiite  ! (NH4)2SnCl6 371.89
1.41%Br Hephaistosite  ! TlPb2Cl5 793.05
1.24%Br Terlinguacreekite  ! Hg++3O2Cl2 709.92
1.07%Br Mutnovskite  ! Pb2AsS3(I,Cl,Br) 670.21
0.24%Br Vurroite  ! Pb20Sn2(Bi,As)22S54Cl6 9,577.60
0.15%Br Aurivilliusite  ! Hg+Hg++OI 541.59

(* - Mineral Name Is Not IMA Approved)
(! - New Dana classification added or changed from Danas New Mineralogy)
(? - IMA Discredited Mineral Species Name)

There are 24 minerals with Br in the Mineralogy Database.

  • Actinium
  • Aluminum
  • Americium
  • Antimony
  • Argon
  • Arsenic
  • Astatine
  • Barium
  • Berkelium
  • Beryllium
  • Bismuth
  • Boron
  • Bromine
  • Cadmium
  • Calcium
  • Calfornium
  • Carbon
  • Cerium
  • Cesium
  • Chlorine
  • Chromium
  • Cobalt
  • Copper
  • Curium
  • Dysprosium
  • Einsteinium
  • Erbium
  • Europium
  • Fermium
  • Fluorine
  • Francium
  • Gadolinium
  • Gallium
  • Germanium
  • Gold
  • Hafnium
  • Hahnium
  • Helium
  • Holmium
  • Hydrogen
  • Indium
  • Iodine
  • Iridium
  • Iron
  • Krypton
  • Lanthanum
  • Lead
  • Lithium
  • Lutetium
  • Magnesium
  • Manganese
  • Mendelevium
  • Mercury
  • Molybdenum
  • Neodymium
  • Neon
  • Neptunium
  • Nickel
  • Niobium
  • Nitrogen
  • Nobelium
  • Osmium
  • Oxygen
  • Palladium
  • Phosphorus
  • Platinum
  • Plutonium
  • Polonium
  • Potassium
  • Praeseodymium
  • Promethium
  • Protactinium
  • Radium
  • Radon
  • Rhenium
  • Rhodium
  • Rubidium
  • Ruthenium
  • Samarium
  • Scandium
  • Selenium
  • Silicon
  • Silver
  • Sodium
  • Strontium
  • Sulfur
  • Tantalum
  • Technetium
  • Tellurium
  • Terbium
  • Thallium
  • Thorium
  • Thulium
  • Tin
  • Titanium
  • Tungsten
  • Uranium
  • Vanadium
  • Xenon
  • Ytterbium
  • Yttrium
  • Zinc
  • Zirconium


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