BROMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bromine mean? 

• BROMINE (noun)
  The noun BROMINE has 1 sense:

1. a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water

  Familiarity information: BROMINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROMINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 35; Br; bromine

Hypernyms ("bromine" is a kind of...):

chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)

halogen (any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions)

Holonyms ("bromine" is a substance of...):

brine; saltwater; seawater (water containing salts)

Derivation:

bromate (treat with bromine)

bromate (react with bromine)

bromic (relating to or containing bromine (especially pentavalent bromine))

brominate (treat with bromine)

brominate (react with bromine)

 Context examples 

A cyclic compound in which at least one hydrogen is replaced by a halogen (chlorine, bromine, iodine, fluorine, astatine) and exposure to this compound can increase the risk human cancer.

(Halogenated Ring Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

First detected in the 1980s, the Antarctic ozone hole forms during the Southern Hemisphere’s late winter as the returning sun’s rays accelerate reactions involving man-made forms of chlorine and bromine, like chlorofluorocarbons, that concentrate over Antarctica during winter.

(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)

A compound that can increase human cancer risk and consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a symmetrical 6-carbon ring structure with single and double bonds alternating around the ring (benzene ring) and in which at least one of the hydrogen atoms is substituted for a halogen (chlorine, bromine, fluorine) atom.

(Carcinogenic Halogenated Aromatic Hydrocarbon, NCI Thesaurus)