Bromo-

before a vowel brom-. Chem. Combining form of BROMINE, as in bromacetic acid, a compound of bromine and acetic acid (C₂H₃BrO₂), forming salts called bromacetates; bromanil, the same as tetrabromoquinone C₆Br₄O₂ (see ANIL 3); bromargyrite = BROMYRITE; bromhydrin, a class of compounds ‘produced by the action of tribromide or pentabromide of phosphorus on glycerin’ (Watts); bromobenzoic acid C₇H₅BrO₂, a substitution-product of benzoic acid, forming salts called bromo-benzoates; bromoform, a compound analogous to chloroform (CH Br₃); bromopicrin, a compound of bromine and picric acid (CBr₃NO₂); etc.

1873.  Fownes, Chem., 560. Bromethine, or Bromacetylene, is produced by the action of alcoholic potash on dibromethene dibromide.

1878.  Kingzett, Anim. Chem., 93. Acting upon an alcoholic solution of ammonia with bromacetic acid.

1873.  Fownes, Chem., 592. The chlorethide or bromethide is converted by water into mercuric ethyl-hydrate.

1883.  Athenæum, 27 Jan., 124/1. Acetylene bromiodide, boiling at 150°.

1873.  Fownes, Chem., 814. Bromobenzoic Acid is formed by the action of bromine on silver benzoate. Ibid., 624. Bromoform is a heavy, volatile liquid.

1881.  Braithwaite, Retrosp. Med., LXXXIII. Synopsis p. xvii. It [Bromohydric Acid] is useful in nervous conditions.

1853.  R. Hunt, Man. Photogr., 146. The decomposition of the bromo-iodide of silver.

1850.  Daubeny, Atom. The., viii. (ed. 2), 238. Bromophenisic acid.