Bromine Bromine is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Br and atomic number 35. It is a volatile red-brown liquid at room temperature that evaporates readily to form a similarly coloured vapour. Its properties are intermediate between th ...

can form several different

oxide An oxide () is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula. "Oxide" itself is the dianion (anion bearing a net charge of −2) of oxygen, an O2− ion with oxygen in the oxidation st ...

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Dibromine monoxide Dibromine monoxide is the chemical compound composed of bromine and oxygen with the formula Br2O. It is a dark brown solid which is stable below −40 °C and is used in bromination reactions. It is similar to dichlorine monoxide, the mon ...

(Br₂O) *

Bromine dioxide Bromine dioxide is the chemical compound composed of bromine and oxygen with the formula BrO2. It forms unstable yellow to yellow-orange crystals. It was first isolated by R. Schwarz and M. Schmeißer in 1937 and is hypothesized to be important i ...

(BrO₂) *

Dibromine trioxide Dibromine trioxide is the chemical compound composed of bromine and oxygen with the formula Br2O3. It is an orange solid that is stable below −40 °C. It has the structure Br−O−BrO2 (bromine bromate). It was discovered in 1 ...

(Br₂O₃) *

Dibromine pentoxide Dibromine pentoxide is the chemical compound composed of bromine and oxygen with the formula Br2O5. It is a colorless solid that is stable below −20 °C. It has the structure O2Br−O−BrO2, the Br−O−Br bond is bent ...

(Br₂O₅) *

Tribromine octoxide Tribromine octoxide is a binary inorganic compound of bromine and oxygen with the chemical formula . This is a free radical and one of the most complex bromine oxide Bromine can form several different oxides: * Dibromine monoxide (Br2O) * Bromin ...

(Br₃O₈) Also, a number of ions are bromine oxides: *

Hypobromite The hypobromite ion, also called alkaline bromine water, is BrO−. Bromine is in the +1 oxidation state. The Br–O bond length is 1.82 Å. Hypobromite is the bromine compound analogous to hypochlorites found in common bleaches, and in immune cel ...

(BrO⁻) *

Bromite Bromous acid is the inorganic compound with the formula of HBrO2. It is an unstable compound, although salts of its conjugate base – bromites – have been isolated. In acidic solution, bromites decompose to bromine. Discovery In 1905, Richa ...

(BrO₂⁻) *

Bromate The bromate anion, , is a bromine-based oxoanion. A bromate is a chemical compound that contains this ion. Examples of bromates include sodium bromate () and potassium bromate (). Bromates are formed many different ways in municipal drinking w ...

(BrO₃⁻) *

Perbromate In chemistry, the perbromate ion is the anion with the chemical formula . It is an oxyanion of bromine, the conjugate base of perbromic acid, in which bromine has the oxidation state +7. Unlike its chlorine () and iodine () analogs, it is diffi ...

(BrO₄⁻) And the bromine monoxide radical: *

Bromine oxide Bromine can form several different oxides: * Dibromine monoxide (Br2O) * Bromine dioxide (BrO2) * Dibromine trioxide (Br2O3) * Dibromine pentoxide (Br2O5) * Tribromine octoxide (Br3O8) Also, a number of ions are bromine oxides: * Hypobromite ...

(BrO)

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