Element 35 · Liquid at room temperature
Bromine
Bromine is atom number 35 — every Bromine atom has exactly 35 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Bromine and nothing else. Its symbol is Br. At room temperature it is a liquid.
Bromine (from Ancient Greek:βρῶμος, brómos, meaning "stench") is a chemical element with symbol Br, and atomic number 35. It is a halogen. The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825–1826.
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Bromine sits in period 4, group 17 of the p-block. Its 35 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 7 — written as [Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p5. Its electronegativity is 2.96 on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 1139.9 kJ/mol. The outermost shell holds 7 electrons — the ones that do all the chemistry.
Full configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p5
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 1139.9, 2103, 3470, 4560, 5760, 8550, 9940, 18600
Electron affinity: 324.537 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
2.96
Density: 3.1028
g/cm³ · melts 265.8 K · boils 332 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
79.904u
Density
3.1028g/cm³
Melts
265.8 K
Boils
332 K
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Bromine's family
Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.
Source
Discovered by Antoine Jérôme Balard.
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