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Bromine

Z: 35
Mass: 79.904
Lifeforce: Water

An element you can pour: reddish-brown, liquid at room temperature. Mercury is the only other one that manages it. And you already know its smell, from every old swimming pool.

A still bowl on a stone catches rain, overflows and waters young sprouts. — Plate · Water Water grasps at nothing. It *receives*, until the bowl overflows and feeds.

Bromine. Element thirty-five. One of only two elements liquid at room temperature, alongside mercury. Reddish-brown. Smells like an old swimming pool.

Lab note · Element thirty-five; alongside mercury, the only one that is liquid at room temperature.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Br · Supernova

Born in supernova explosions, the death of massive stars scattering their innards across the galaxy.

65 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

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