"Bromine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... times more salt, and much more soda, sulphur, magnesia, chlorine, bromine and potassium than any ocean water on the globe. It is powerful in medicinal virtues, curing or benefiting many forms of rheumatism, rheumatic gout, dyspepsia, nervous disorders and cutaneous diseases, and it acts ...
— My Native Land • James Cox
... with hot sulphuric acid and formaldehyde gradually added, a dark coloured water-soluble condensation product is formed which strongly precipitates gelatine. Exposed to the action of bromine, the condensation product yields a mass which ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser
... attached considerable importance to their brominated lachrymators. In this connection their persistent efforts to retain the bromine monopoly with their Stassfurt product and to crush the American industry before the war are significant. The success of these efforts certainly placed us in a difficult situation during the war, both with regard to ...
— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden
... is used as follows: Remove the cork and pour in mercury until it stands at e and g, then fill up to the mark, f, with sodium or potassium hypobromite (made by shaking up bromine with a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide). Next carefully fill the tube in the cork with the urine, being careful especially not to run it over or leave air bubbles in it. This can easily be done by using ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 • Various
... he continued, slapping his bald head with a bandana handkerchief, "that a whiff of chlorine or bromine wouldn't do these trenches a considerable amount of good. It would tone down some of the deceased a bit, and wipe out these infernal flies. Waddell, if I give you a shilling, will you take it over to the German trenches and ask them to drop ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay |
