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At ambient temperature bromine is a brownish-red liquid. It has a similarly colored vapor with an offensive and suffocating odor. It is the only nonmetallic element that is liquid under ordinary conditions, it evaporates easily at standard temperature and pressures in a red vapor that has a strong disagreeable odor resembling that of chlorine. Bromine is less active chemically than chlorine and fluorine but is more active than iodine; its compounds are similar to those of the other halogens. Bromine is soluble in organic solvents and in water.
Group | 17 | Melting point | −7.2°C, 19°F, 266 K |
Period | 4 | Boiling point | 58.8°C, 137.8°F, 332 K |
Block | p | Density (g cm−3) | 3.1028 |
Atomic number | 35 | Relative atomic mass | 79.904 |
State at 20°C | Liquid | Key isotopes | 79Br |
Electron configuration | [Ar] 3d104s24p5 | CAS number | 7726-95-6 |