Uses: In the petroleum industry, bromine is used in the manufacture of combustion and explosion-proof agents and well completion fluids.
In agriculture, it is the raw material for the manufacture of efficient pesticides, fumigants for insect and rodent extermination in grain storage and farmland insecticides.
In the pharmaceutical industry, bromine is widely used in the manufacture of potassium bromide, sodium bromide, ammonium bromide, chloramphenicol, nepsilon and TMP and other drugs.
Bromine is an important raw material for the manufacture of certain dyestuffs; it is an important raw material for the production of flame retardants in the plastics industry and building materials industry.
In national defence, military industry and fire-fighting industry, bromine is the raw material for manufacturing highly efficient and low-toxic fire extinguishing agent; at the same time, bromine is also the main material for manufacturing photographic equipment.