16 Jan
2013
16 Jan
'13
12:52 a.m.
On Jan 15, 2013, at 4:38 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
I don't know or want to know what a bromide is even (sounds like something mum or dad
were taking for gas or constipation back in the dawn of time, circa 1972). All I know is
if you put warm coffee in a ceramic mug on top of a yellow computer, it erases the yellow,
for a few seconds. There's real creepy going on with this stuff, that's all I
know.
Sure you do!
From a couple of Wikipedia articles:
A bromide is
a chemical compound containing a bromide ion or ligand. This is a bromine atom with an
ionic charge of ?1 in ionic compounds such as caesium bromide, or else a bromine atom with
an oxidation number of -1 incovalent compounds such as sulfur dibromide.
Bromine is a chemical element with the symbol Br, and atomic number of 35.
At high temperatures, organobromine compounds are easily converted to free bromine atoms,
a process which acts to terminate free radical chemical chain reactions. This makes such
compounds useful fire retardants and this is bromine's primary industrial use,
consuming more than half of world production of the element. The same property allows
volatile organobromine compounds, under the action of sunlight, to form free bromine atoms
in the atmosphere which are highly effective in ozone depletion.
TTFN - Guy