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I'd replace the whole metal jar and also try to seal the bottle inside and work under a fume-hood. Or if you don't need the bromide, dispose of as hazardous waste following your lab regulations for such stuff.
As Bromine is quite corrosive and reacts with many materials (plastics, metals), has a low vapour pressure and is toxic for humans and many other organisms, it's not easy to store it long time without leakage (e.g. in a glass bottle with a plastic lid that starts to corrode after some time) and therefore it's questionable if you should store especially larger amounts in your lab or in your stock of chemicals (which is hopefully ventilated).
#144606 Bromine jar growing strange crystals...
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on 04 November 2012 - 05:04 AM
#144560 Bromine jar growing strange crystals...
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on 03 November 2012 - 04:43 AM
It's in a metal can, and the crystals are a result of small amounts of bromine leaking and reacting with the metal, forming the metal bromide. The bromine is probably still good, and you could still use it. You probably want to replace the metal can.
