Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine

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Bromine, along with mercury, is one of only two elements that are liquid at room temperature. Bromine is a highly volatile and corrosive reddish-brown liquid that evaporates easily and converts to a metal at extreme pressures — above about 540,000 times atmospheric pressure. Bromine occurs in seawater, evaporitic (salt) lakes and underground brines associated with petroleum deposits. 

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Schnebele, E., 2015, Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine: Earth, v. September 2015, HTML Document.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Mineral Resource of the Month: Bromine
Series title Earth
Volume September 2015
Year Published 2015
Language English
Publisher AGI
Contributing office(s) National Minerals Information Center
Description HTML Document
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