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Bromine was discovered in 1826 by the French chemist Antoine-Jérôme Balard.21
He isolated the element from the residues of sea salt manufactured in Montpellier by passing chlorine through an aqueous solution containing magnesium bromide. While the German chemist Justus von Liebig appears to have obtained the element earlier, he mistakenly identified it as iodine chloride. Due to the substance's pungent odor, it was named bromine, derived from the Greek word bromos, meaning "stench".2