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The business of a broker.
Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.
A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
Aliment; food.
An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
A salt of bromic acid.
To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
One versed in the science of foods.
The science of aliments.
See Bromine.
A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.
A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
See Bromate, v. t.
One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. 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.
A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.
A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects.