世間萬物的存在，必定有其存在的價值和意義，每一個事物的產生必定有其產生的根源，并非憑空而降。

Bromine 溴

1826 年巴拉德發表了論文《海藻中的新元素》。另外，他把氯氣通到從地中海鹽場中獲得的廢海鹽的母液里，第一次獲得了溴。開始，巴拉德建議把發現的新元素取名為“muride”，即“鹵”，它源自拉丁詞 muria，意為“鹽水”。巴拉德把自己的發現通知了巴黎科學院。 科學院把這個新元素改稱為“Bromine”，源自希臘詞“bromos”，意為“惡 臭”。因為它具有惡臭味，且是唯一的在常溫下處于液態的非金屬元素，因此中文名“溴”。

bromide Potassium bromide is used as a sedative, and it was that which inspired the American humorist Gelett Burgess’s book Are You A Bromide? (1906), in which he metaphoricized bromide as a ‘dull conventional person’. In British English it is the more abstract figurative sense ‘trite or conventional remark’ that has caught on. Bromide was based on bromine, the name of a liquid element, which in turn was formed from French brome. The element was so christened, from Greek brōmos ‘stench’, because of its highly irritant and unpleasant smell.

bromidic adj. 平庸的; 無聊的; 陳腐的

bromide n. 嗅化物, 傭俗的人, 平凡的人