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This particular history gives credit of naming "bromine" to Balard's professor Joseph Anglada, but as noted above the naming of this element had a more tortuous history.
Balard made a detailed study of the compounds of bromine, preparing both inorganic and organic compounds, and noting the complete analogy of bromine to chlorine and iodine.