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ALGAE are known to concentrate the element bromine, but, like chlorine, this may occur only as ballast1. The nature of accumulated bromine is uncertain. In several rhodophycean species, specialized cells, or “bromuques”, have been recognized2, whereas chlorine is apparently accumulated in the vacuole. Large amounts of bromine have been shown to occur in organic combination with phenols in members of the Rhodomelaceae1–3.
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MCLACHLAN, J., CRAIGIE, J. Bromide, a Substitute for Chloride in a Marine Algal Medium. Nature 214, 604–605 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214604a0
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