lithium
Collocations
5ADJ.
low, over, strategic, used, used
VERB + LITHIUM
exploring, involving, makes, peeing, rush, started, take, taking
LITHIUM + NOUN
alkali, batteries, day, dose, ecuador, example, ion, memory
PREP.
in, with
ADV.
potentially, recently
Definitions
noun
The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94. It is a soft, silvery metal.
The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.
Already, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush. Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.
A single atom of this element.
Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used as a mood stabiliser to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
It seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium.
There's more: Part of the reason I am so meek is that I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. It's not that I have a death wish, and it's not that I'm like Axl Rose and think that lithium makes me less manly (he supposedly stopped taking it after his first wife told him that his dick wasn't as hard as it used to be and that sex with him was lousy;[…]).
A lithium battery.
name
An inactive village in Perry County, Missouri.
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Synonyms
noun — a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal gr
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Example Bank
6The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.
WiktionaryAlready, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush. Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.
WiktionaryIt seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium.
WiktionaryLithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium and francium are alkali metals.
Tatoeba · #1555667The lithium coin memory back-up battery inside this product contains Perchlorate.
Tatoeba · #1693364Lithium-ion batteries are a class of batteries that uses redox reactions involving lithium.
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