[TheCleric]

> Bromine has also been used to make flame retardant fabrics, carpet, furniture, etc.

While this argument feels right, chemically it makes no sense. You can do this with any element. It’s the same as saying you shouldn’t drink water because it has hydrogen and oxygen which are used as rocket fuel.

[streaming]

No, it's not the same. Molecules act very differently than the individual elements that make the molecule. Water does not behave similarly to hydrogen or oxygen, and humans aren't plants, which can break water into component elements. What happens to the bromine when humans ingest brominated vegetable oil? Something very different than what happens when we ingest water, which always stays stable as a water molecule.

[scentoni]

Water famously does not always stay stable as a water molecule and in fact has extremely complex behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-ionization_of_water