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sodium bromide

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble solid, NaBr, used chiefly in photography as a developer, and in medicine as a sedative.


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Last year, a nutritionist ended up hospitalized after taking ChatGPT’s advice to replace salt in his diet with sodium bromide.

From Slate Jan. 21, 2026

To brominate wood pulp, Dr. Lewin simply adds sodium bromide, which is as stable as table salt, to the solution in a standard bleaching apparatus, then bubbles chlorine through it.

From Time Magazine Archive

If a few grains of sodium bromide were to produce the same effect, they would be just as welcome.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

"Oh," he said, "yes, it contains sodium bromide, but not bromide of potash."

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

If I had known his character, some sodium bromide in his morning feed might, by this time, have mollified his obstinacy.

From The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Stockton, Frank Richard

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