A House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would enable state environmental regulators to set standards for bromine, an industrial emission that was recently determined to play a surprisingly ...

Bromine is chemically very similar to chlorine, except chlorine is a gas and bromine is a liquid. It's one of the only elements that exists as a liquid at room temperature (the other is mercury), and ...

BROMINE was discovered by French chemist Antoine-Jérôme Balard and is an element that can be found on the periodic table. The chemical is known as a naturally occurring element, and when handled ...

Twenty-seven chemical elements are considered to be essential for human life. Now there is a 28th: bromine. In a new paper, researchers establish for the first time that bromine, among the 92 ...

Chalk up another win for citizen activists. Coke and Pepsi announced this week that they will no longer use brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, in their soft drinks. BVO is an emulsifier; it helps to ...