Bromine

[TheVacuumGuy]

@41Dxflatline KBr is widely available (NaBr I don't know). Just add some conc. sulfuric acid and get set up for vacuum distillation. Slowly add in H2O2 with an addition funnel. Once done take a sep funnel and add a little conc. h2so4, pour your bromine+water solution into the sep funnel, extract the bottom layer into a test tube and seal with a blowtorch. The most dangerous part is adding the liquid to the sep funnel.

I just got my 35 % H2O2 (its only 250ml so going to order couple more)

AFAIK, sulfuric + Kbr (or NaBr) is only used to make HBr in situ. Since I got couple of bottles of commercial boiling Hbr i can probably skip the first half ( did a quick test in a test tube and released hell lot of bromine i had to throw it out lol).

If there are reasons against or more benefits of going the salt+sulfuric route, i'd like to know.

thanks all for the comments