sodium bromide

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

Almost needless to say, sodium bromide is at least as harmful as potassium bromide, and the advertisement is entirely for purposes of deception.

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

Cessation of the habit and sodium bromide, twenty grains three times daily, dissolved in water, administered for not more than three days, may relieve the headache and other trouble.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm