Word Meanings - BROME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

BROMINE
One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it
THEOBROMINE
An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl xanthine.