What is sodium bromide
It’s white crystal or powder. Salty or slightly bitter. It absorbs moisture from the air and agglomerates but does not deliquescence. Soluble in water, the aqueous solution is neutral. It is slightly soluble in alcohol. Low toxicity, irritant.
The main application of sodium bromide
·In the imaging industry, it is used to make photographic films.
·It can be used as diuretic and sedative in medicine, and can strengthen the inhibition process of cerebral cortex.
·It is used as brominating agent in synthetic perfume, medicine and dye industry.
·It is also commonly used as a chemical reagent.
In the pharmaceutical industry, including pesticide manufacturing and the drugs used by people to treat various diseases, bromine is needed in the manufacturing. In medicine, the amount of bromine is very large, bromine is the general name of bromide as a sedative, because it can strengthen the process of cerebral cortex and produce sedative effect. Commonly used bromine tablets, tribromide mixture and Pavlov mixture are used to treat neurasthenia and hysteria. Bromine is also a disinfectant, such as bromine water, bromocamphor and all kinds of antibacterial drugs are inseparable from bromine.
In agriculture, bromine produces a lot of pesticide products, such as fumigant for killing insects and rodents in grain depot, and “nematicidal mixture No.1” is specially used to treat nematode disease of flower insects, which can increase peanut yield by more than 30%. In recent years, pesticides and pesticides, such as methyl bromide acetaldehyde bromide, methylene aldehyde bromide, dibromoethane and chlorobromoethane, have been widely used.
Finally, I would like to remind you: bromine has a pungent smell and strong corrosivity, which can not be directly contacted.
