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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

Iodine can readily be prepared in the laboratory from an iodide by the method used in preparing bromine, except that sodium iodide is substituted for sodium bromide.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William

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

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

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

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