bromine

See also: brominé

English

Chemical element
Br
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Etymology

From French brome, from Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos, “stink”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: brō'mēn, -mĭn, -mīn, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊmiːn, -mɪn, -maɪn/

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• (US) enPR: brō'mēn, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹoʊmin/
• Hyphenation: bro‧mine

Noun

bromine (countable and uncountable, plural bromines)

2. (uncountable) A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Br) with an atomic number of 35; one of the halogens, it is a fuming red-brown liquid at room temperature.
3. (countable) A bromine atom

Synonyms

• muride

Hypernyms

• element
  • halogen

Derived terms

• brom-, bromo-
• bromal
• bromane
• bromate
• bromian
• bromic
• bromide
• brominate
• brominated
• bromination
• bromine chloride
• bromine hydride
• bromine monofluoride
• bromine monoxide
• bromine pentafluoride
• bromine trifluoride
• bromine water
• brominism
• bromise, bromize
• bromism
• bromite
• bromoform
• bromuret
• dibromine
• nonbromine
• organobromine
• radiobromine

 

Related terms

• brome

Descendants

• → Malay: bromin

Translations

nonmetallic chemical element

• Afrikaans: broom (af)
• Albanian: brom (sq) m
• Arabic: بُرُوم m (burūm)
• Armenian: բրոմ (hy) (brom)
• Asturian: bromu (ast) m
• Basque: bromoa
• Belarusian: бром m (brom)
• Breton: brom m
• Bulgarian: бром m (brom)
• Catalan: brom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溴 (zh) (xiù)

• Cornish: bromyn ?
• Czech: brom (cs) m
• Danish: brom (da) n
• Dutch: broom (nl) n
• Esperanto: bromo (eo)
• Estonian: broom (et)
• Faroese: brom n
• Finnish: bromi (fi)
• French: brome (fr) m
• Friulian: brom ?
• Galician: bromo (gl) m
• Georgian: ბრომი (bromi)
• German: Brom (de) n
• Greek: βρόμιο (el) n (vrómio)
• Hebrew: ברום (he) m (brom)
• Hindi: दुराघ्री ? (durāghrī)
• Hungarian: bróm (hu)
• Icelandic: bróm (is) n
• Interlingua: bromo
• Irish: bróimín (ga) m
• Italian: bromo (it) m
• Japanese: 臭素 (ja) (しゅうそ, shūso)
• Kashubian: bróm
• Kazakh: бром (brom)
• Khmer: ប្រូម (proum)
• Korean: 취소(臭素) (ko) (chwiso), 브롬 (ko) (beurom), 브로민 (beuromin)
• Latin: brōmium (la) n
• Latvian: broms m
• Limburgish: bróm (li) n
• Lingala: bomo class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: bromas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Brom ?
• Macedonian: бром m (brom)
• Malay: bromin
• Maltese: bromu m
• Manx: bromeen ?
• Maori: pūkane
• Marathi: बोमीन (bomīn)
• Mongolian: бром (mn) (brom)
• Norwegian: brom (no) n
• Occitan: bròme m
• Persian: برم (fa) (borom)
• Polish: brom (pl) m
• Portuguese: bromo (pt) m
• Romanian: brom (ro) n
• Russian: бром (ru) m (brom)
• Scottish Gaelic: bròimin m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бро̏м m

  Roman: brȍm (sh) m

• Sindhi: ڳاڙهرو (sd) m
• Slovak: bróm (sk) m
• Slovene: brom (sl) m
• Spanish: bromo (es) m
• Swedish: brom (sv) n
• Tagalog: bromo
• Tajik: бром (brom)
• Tamil: நெடியம் (neṭiyam)
• Thai: โบรมีน (th) (broo-miin)
• Turkish: brom (tr)
• Ukrainian: бром (uk) m (brom)
• Urdu: دراگھری ? (durāghrī)
• Uzbek: бром (uz) (brom), brom (uz)
• Vietnamese: brom
• Volapük: bromin (vo)
• Welsh: bromin (cy) m
• West Frisian: broom ?

Anagrams

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