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1803–1890
Carl Jacob Löwig
Discovered bromine in 1826.
Element
35BrBromine
1826
In 1826 Antoine-Jérôme Balard, in Montpellier, bubbled chlorine through the salty water left from evaporating seawater and freed a red-brown liquid. A year earlier Carl Löwig, a student in Heidelberg, had made the same liquid from spring water, but Balard published first. They named it bromine, from the Greek for stench.
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- Karl Jacob LöwigDeutsche Biographie
- BromineRoyal Society of Chemistry
- Carl Jacob LöwigWikipedia