Making Bromine from BCDMH (Spa Disinfectant)

Extractions&Ire June 14, 2018
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This is the second channel of Explosions&Fire. More detailed synthesis videos are here, where I do chemistry and mumble about life a lot, as apposed to just lighting things on fire for 2 minutes. As always, if you have a suggestion, let me know!

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Bromine is produced from the spa disinfectant Bromochlorodimethylhydantoin, a bromine chemical actually available OTC to Australians. It is a beautiful sunny Public holiday. What could possibly go wrong? Link to book: https://www.crcpress.com/Small-Scale-Synthesis-of-Laboratory-Reagents-with-Reaction-Modeling/Lerner/p/book/9781439813126 Sorry I can't really link to a pirate version of a book, if you want to source one out, ok, but it's not really fair of me to link directly to it sorry.