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Of the nature of a halogen...
Bromine
One of the halogen elements related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine Atomic weight 798 Symbol Br It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water and in many saline springs It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite...
Cyanogen
A colorless inflammable poisonous gas C2N2 with a peach blossom odor so called from its tendency to form blue compounds obtained by heating ammonium oxalate mercuric cyanide etc It is obtained in combination forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements and shows a tendency to form complex compounds The name is also applied to the univalent radical CN the half molecule of cyanogen proper which was one of the first compound radicals recognized...
Fluorine
A non metallic gaseous element of atomic number 9 strongly acid or negative and associated with chlorine bromine and iodine in the halogen group of which it is the first member It always occurs combined is very active chemically and possesses such an avidity for most elements and silicon especially that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels but may be contained in lead vessels If set free it immediately attacks a containing glass vessel so that it was not isolated until 1886 It is a pungent corrosive colorless gas Symbol F Atomic weight 1900...
gen
A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing generating as amphigen amidogen halogen...
Halogen
An electro negative element or radical which by combination with a metal forms a haloid salt especially chlorine fluorine bromine and iodine sometimes also cyanogen See Chlorine family under Chlorine...
Iodine
A nonmetallic element of the halogen group of atomic number 53 occurring always in combination as in the iodides When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales resembling plumbago soft but brittle and emitting a chlorinelike odor Symbol I Atomic weight 12690 If heated iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors...
Salogen
A halogen...
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