BROMINE SYNTHESIS

HOW TO MAKE BROMINE.....I am basically doing what i did in the last video where i made chlorine. Only this time I added some aqueous sodium bromide in the pot with the calcium hypochlorite. Then dripped in some hydrochloric acid. This made chlorine but chlorine is more reactive than bromine. So as soon as the chlorine was made in situ it changed places with the bromide. This reduced the chlorine to make sodium chloride and oxidized the bromide to bromine. Which was then distilled out to get bromine with a little bit of water. My hotplate broke during the experiment so i never got ALL the bromine out. But because of that i also did not distill any water over. I did but not enough water distilled over to make 2 layers. If i wanted to get rid of the water i would add salt water to the bromine and use a separation funnel and then SLOWLY add H2SO4 to the bromine and use a separation funnel to get pure bromine. This is VERY EXOTHERMIC and bromine already wants to be a gas. SO CHILL EVERYTHING AND DO IT SLOW. YOU DO NOT WANT IT TO EXPLODE CAUSE YOU DID IT FAST AND IT HEATED UP AND MADE A WHOLE BUNCH OF BROMINE GAS REAL FAST AND THE PRESSURE CRACK YOUR LAB GLASS. But i am making hypobromous acid so i do not care if there is water in there or not. So i did not dry it. The solids in the bromine at the end can be filtered out. Or decanted out. I have no idea what that is. If i had to guess i would say it is a trimer or oligomer of bromine. Or maybe bromine and chlorine form the solid in some way. Like 2 bromines and one chlorine in a polymer type structure. Any one knows........let me know in a post