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Uses of Bromine: flame retardants, drilling fluids, pesticides, chemicals for water purification, photographic chemicals, and as an additive to rubber.
BROMINE and the modern world
- Chorine and Bromine chemicals cause the hole in the ozone layer - Because many bromine and chlorine aerosols have been internationally banned for over ten years, an auatralian study says that levels of these chemicals have dropped, and that the ozone hole may repair itself in the next fifty years.
- May 31, 2006 -Bromine leak at a synthetic rubber factory (Japan Butyl Co.) in Japan: 44 people taken to hospital with eye pains and nausea - 3 of the 44 were kept in hospital - amount of bromine leaked is belived to be small - The bromine was leaked when a worker was replacing a pipe on a bromine tank
