Bromine is widely used as a disinfectant and water purifier, often chosen as an alternative to chlorine. Brominated compounds are commonly added to swimming pools and hot tubs, where they remain ...

Bromine water is an orange solution of bromine. It becomes colourless when it is shaken with an alkene. Alkenes can decolourise bromine water, but alkanes cannot. The slideshow shows this process.

The FDA has officially banned brominated vegetable oil (BVO), a controversial soda ingredient linked to health risks, ...

A halogen cannot displace itself from a solution of one of its salts, eg potassium bromine would not displace bromine water, so these combinations are not done.

A dilute solution of bromine is added to samples of heptane and cyclohexene. The bromination reactions and mechanisms are compared. UV light splits the bromine molecule into two reactive radicals, ...