Show bromine brom 0 ae at last 4 gets its ILs A revenge reve L ige once defamed chemical comes into its own washington the ethyl haa bas pono gone down JON n to sen sea for automobiles the ethyl Is a specialty specially constructed ship for robbing sea gen water of bromine bromine in the last few years has haa been getting revenge for defamation of diameter character says a bulletin from the national geographic so society lety from its headquarters in washington in 1000 1900 a popular author oil thor divided all people into two acin hinds ds bromides and sulphates sulphites sulp hites tile the it 1011 tes transferring chemical character to men were tle the effervescent eager bright original sort the illuminati the bromides were tile the conservatives tile the wild bores people who were always saying the same things in the same old way most people are formally introduced to bromine the element which forms a part of all bromides in their hilgh school days and they remember it as it distinctly unpleasant smelling dark brown heavy liquid that gives off nn an ugly brown gaa readily little does the world know teals I 1 in less than ten years t ariano Ari Jno stepped out of tile role ns na signed it mild consert conservative active meek bromine was one of the first poisonous gases used in the world war bromine macia civilization rasp gasp in horror and by a still more rec recent ent feat of chemical acrobatics bromine has taken to serving automobile engines engine s the ethyl has rone gone for bromine to help in the making of nn an antiknock nad while it does not enter into the compound used it lins has a finger in the fuel for those explosions which make it possible to describe an automobile ensine engine ns its a gatling run nn firing 0 shots per minute high seas a producing area the entrance of nt tile the high seas in the bromine e market divides the production between three major sources tile the united states and germany have been the el chief ilef producers the R ethyl thyl which has bas been transformed into a floating 11 chemical laboratory Is prepared to treat gallons of water per minute so small Is the bromine content that this largo amount of water will only yield between four ond and five pounds of bromine chlorine la Is employee employed I 1 to treat the water and the extraction process Is fairly simple the chlorine can be used over and over again tile the ethyl Is sent to sen sea because of the impurities that might occur in shore waters A further furt lier reason suggested Is that water taken from the ocean at a great depth contains chiem teals more highly concentrated and therefore with more bromne bromine bromine Bro mint Is now obtained chiefly michigan and from stassfurt Stass furt j ifrain froin germany and Strass furt happen to be tile sites bites of largo large salt deposits an and d with the salt are other chemicals such as iodine bromine and potassium in tile aliese e deposits world history la Is down and preserved for our knowledge it s possible to recon stork geography from an prehistoric exploration of tho the extent of the beds mill and the strata recorded in rock salt at some instant Il stant time it grout great area of the prussian plain was a bay of the ocean it was a bay like some of those found today on tile the east shore of the caspian sen sea where a shallow depression is practically cut clit off by a sand bar drawing tile necessary water from tile the caspian sea these bays crystallize tons tells upon tons of salt annually gradually filling ill n g themselves up when salt crystallizes cry stal lizes a mother liquor of other minerals highly concentrated cent cont rated r it if the feeder channel lu iti atit daijo r this la is drawn on off as lighter water flows in but it if the stopper Is firm in natures huge crystallization vat the lie another liquors themselves crystallize out and leave iodine bromine potassium und and other substances lit in places the salt deposits in tile the Strass furt region are nearly feet thick it la Is estimated that at least years acura were required for such a deposit posit A basin of normal sea water would have to bo be 30 nilles miles deep to form such a deposit so it Is certain that north germany wn wai once the site of a caspian sea or a dead seu sea in medicine and photography bromine Hrom lne Ls bi extracted from the mother liquor after the suit salt Is taken enli en out of the brine from the deposit the process Is simple chemically but the percentage of bromine Is so small that the price has long been high in medicine and in photography bromine fulfills tile part given it by tile the humorist certain bromides are congi considered dered excellent sedatives seda tives in the dark room bromides hold back the silver allver salts in the emulsions on paper and films which are as sensitive to light as the eye of a hat bat bromine la Is also important to tile the lye dye industry but it Is 13 hard bard to deny the irony of bromides in their newest roles ot of speeding ene enemies niles to destruction and speeding up automobile engines |