Talk:Calcium bromide

New use: power station flue gas mercury removal

According to my reading of this: http://www.unep.org/chemicalsandwaste/Portals/9/Mercury/Documents/INC2/INC2_NRDC_Mercury%20Control%20Scenarios.pdf some mercury is removed from power station emissions by controls intended to remove particulates, oxides of sulphur and oxides of nitrogen, but the results are highly variable, with the causes of variability not really explained.

Adding calcium bromide changes the mercury from elemental mercury to oxides of mercury, which makes it easier to remove, and the existing removal methods more effective than they would otherwise be.

Does this belong in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArthurDent006.5 (talk • contribs) 07:57, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion, thanks but no it does not belong in the article. Lots of stuff is tried for all sorts of applications, and Wiki-chem is not striving to "keep up" per WP:NOTNEWS. In chemistry, according to my philosophy, we are looking for knowledge that is so settled that it is discussed in reviews or textbooks, per WP:SECONDARY. Otherwise we end up writing blogs. --Smokefoot (talk) 13:31, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Boiling point

The boiling point of the dihydrate is given as 810 C, higher than the melting point of the anhydrous salt. Is that correct? I would expect the dihydrate to lose its water well before the latter termperature. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 22:47, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Dihydrate or hexahydrate?

The text says that it forms a hexahydrate, but the chembox says dihydrate. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 15:47, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

thanks for noticing. Any other problems, then leave a note. --Smokefoot (talk) 18:29, 10 November 2016 (UTC)