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Lithium (from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos) 'stone') is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3. It is a soft, silvery-white alkali metal. Under standard conditions, it is the least dense metal and the least dense solid element.
24 kwi 2023 · Lithium first entered the modern era when, during the 1970s oil crisis, the English chemist Stanley Whittingham developed a rechargeable battery using lithium and titanium. However, these early batteries could short circuit and didn’t become mainstream.
26 sie 2019 · 26 August 2019. Lithium: the gripping history of a psychiatric success story. The treatment for bipolar disorder was discovered through an unlikely route. Douwe Draaisma praises an account of it....
Lithium (from Greek lithos 'stone') is a soft, silver-white metal with symbol Li. It is the third chemical element in the periodic table. This means that it has 3 protons in its nucleus and 3 electrons around it. Its atomic number is 3. Its mass number is 6.94. It has two common isotopes, 6 Li and 7 Li. 7 Li is more common; 92.5% of lithium is ...
The serendipitous story of lithium. Douwe Draaisma praises a gripping history of psychiatry’s most consistently effective medicine. Some. 70 years ago, John Cade, an Australian psychiatrist,...
In alkali metal: History. …discovered by the Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson in 1817 while analyzing the mineral petalite. The name lithium is derived from lithos, the Greek word for “stony.”. The element was not isolated in pure form until Davy produced a minute quantity by the electrolysis of lithium chloride.
20 maj 2016 · Lithium was discovered in 1800 by a Brazilian chemist in a mine on the island of Utö, Sweden. Because it was not found free in nature, but rather in rocks and mineral springs, it was given the Greek name lithos, meaning stone (Fig. 3.1).
