Question
Question: How do we neutralize bromine?...
How do we neutralize bromine?
Solution
Bromine is the third member of the halogen with atomic number
35 and mass equals 79.904 g. Bromine was isolated by Carl Jacob Lowing in 1825 and later on discovered by Antoine Jerome Balard in 1826 . It is mostly in liquid form at room temperature. However, in solid state the crystal structure of bromine is orthorhombic.
Complete answer:
Nature always wants to maintain neutrality in terms of charge as well as in terms of characters ( acid or base ). With a positive charge a negative charge will always exist like in sodium chloride, sodium is mono positive and chloride is mono negative. With acids in one part of the living organism, base also exists in another part of the body to maintain the neutrality.
Acids with base will give a neutral salt with water. The pH of the neutralized solution depends upon the strength and concentration of the acid or base present. Some of the acids are hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, perchloric acid, many more and some of the bases are calcium hydroxide, lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, many more.
For the neutralization of bromine we need to add hydrochloric acid with calcium hypochlorite.
Note :
Neutralization method is used in the treatment of waste water to reduce the microbes or other harmful molecules, etc. Several antacids are prepared with the help of a neutralization technique. It is to remember that a neutralization reaction is reversible in nature, iff the concentration of one reactant is very high as compared to another reactant then the reaction is said to be reversible.