Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BROME, n. [Gr. βρωμος, fœtor.]

A liquid of a deep red-brown color, very volatile, and having an ill smell, obtained from the mother-water of salt-works, and from the lixivia of the ashes of sea plants, by treating these solutions with chlorine. It has three times the density of water. – Journ. of Science.