BROMINE
Element Baby Book
By
Leigh Miller
Page 1 – introduce your baby in
a descriptive paragraph.
Minnie Bromine was born in 1826. The
doctor in attendance was Antoine J.
Balard. She weighed 79.904 amu at birth.
She’s a nonmetal member of the Halogen
family. She was 35 tall, about average for
her family who live in the French
countryside. She is very liquid with a
personality that ranges from 58.8 oC to 7.2 oC on an average day. We call her Br
for short.
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Page 2 – pronunciation rebus
ther
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(Bro – mean)
ther
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Official
Birth Certificate
Country of France
Certificate of Live Birth
Attending Physician
Antoine J. Balard
Name
First Minnie
Mother
First Berniece
Birth no.
{Ar}4s23d104p5
Last Bromine
Date of Birth
1860
Time of Birth
1:15 p.m.
Last Bromine
Father
First Bernard
Last Bromine
Mother’s Maiden Name
Halogen
Mother’s Birthdate Father’s Birthdate
1840
1838
Hospital
Attending Physician’s Signature
Date
Mendeleev General
Antoine J. Balard, MD
1860
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Official
Birth Certificate
Country of ___________
Certificate of Live Birth
Attending Physician
Name
First
Mother
First
Birth no.
Date of Birth
.
Last
Father
First
Last
Mother’s Maiden Name
Hospital
Time of Birth
Last
Mother’s Birth date Father’s Birth date
Attending Physician’s Signature
Date
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Minnie Bromine’s Portrait
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
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Minnie Bromine’s Portrait
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
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Ode to Bromine
YO, YO Bromine, you’re
the one. You keep me
my stuff from burning and that’s
how its done. You are in
Some salts and medicine. You are
found hiding out in the
ocean. You are poisonous and as
a gas you could make me die. But
as my element I think you
are fly.
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Minnie Bromine’s Family
Portrait
Meet the Halogens.
4 Balard Court
French Province of Nonmetallica
7 is their lucky number.
Flo Fluorine
She’s a dentist.
Chloe Chlorine
She has a pool cleaning business.
Ida Iodine
She’s a nurse and tends to
children’s cuts and scrapes.
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Minnie Bromine’s Bohr
Model Portrait
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Minnie Bromine’s Future
Career Choices
Minnie Bromine has a number of career choices before her. She can open
her own flame retardant chemical factory. When she is chemically
combined with flame retardant chemicals, and the material burns, it
produces hydrobromic acid which interferes with the oxidation reaction of
the fire. Since fires have to have oxygen to burn, they’re harder to start
when Minnie’s around.
Another career choice for Minnie is to go into the oil industry. When added
to gasolines as ethylene bromide, she helps the engine knock less. Which
seems to be important to new car owners. However, job prospects in this
field have been declining since the 1970’s due to environmental regulations.
Another career path Minnie might choose is to go into the soda business.
When used in the production of brominated vegetable oil in citrus-flavored
soft drinks such as Mountain Dew it acts as an emulsifier. As long as she
stays in the US, her prospects are pretty good at securing employment.
As you can see, Minnie has many profitable choices ahead of her.
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