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...ave 44 neutrons, but sometimes I have 46. I get angry very easily and when I’m only at 265.8 K (19 degrees Fahrenheit) I melt. When I get even madder, I will start boiling at 331 K (138 degrees Fahrenheit). I don’t conduct electricity and my thermal conductivity is .122 W/(m*K). My life isn’t very interesting, but I will tell it to you anyways. Antoine Balard discovered me at salt marshes of Montpellier in 1826. I was not produced in quantity until 1869. As you can see my life has been really dull. I occur in nature as bromide salts. Bromide salts have accumulated in seawater (85ppm) due to leaching. Approximately 500 kilograms ($ 350 million US dollars) of me is produced each year. The two primary producers are the United States and Israel. Because I am so expensive, I am usually recycled instead of being disposed into the environment. Now you are probably wondering what I do. I am used to manufacture bromine compounds that are used in industry and agriculture. The largest use of me is to make 1,2-Dibromoethane, which is used as a gasoline anti-knock agent for leaded gasoline. That was of course before leaded gas was out due ...