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lithium
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lithium compounds , also known as lithium salts are primarily used as a psychiatric medication. This includes in the treatment of major depressive disorder that does not improve following the use of other antidepressants and bipolar disorder . In these ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
silver-white metallic element, 1818, with element ending -ium + lithia , Modern Latin name given by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) to the earth from which it was extracted, from Greek lithos "stone" (see litho- ). So called from its mineral ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lithium \Lith"i*um\ (l[i^]th"[i^]*[u^]m), n. [NL., from Gr. li`qeios of stone, fr. li`qos stone.] (Chem.) A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And I've had an allergic reaction to the oil and lithium grease, or maybe it's the Ecover. ▪ He tried using lithium salts to quieten manic patients. ▪ It is not known how lithium salts work. ▪ It was as if the lithium severed ...
Usage examples of lithium.
For instance, lithium salts easily induced cyclopia, a single central eye, in fish embryos.
Instead of a microgram of deuterium being fused and giving off a puff of energy, a quarter ton of lithium and heavier metals will explode.
A Bussard ramjet will put out a lot of funny chemicals: high-energy hydrogen and helium, lithium radicals, some borates, even lithium hydride, which is generally an impossible chemical.
The only thing they can do with lithium hydride and cobalt is turn this ship into a real big, real filthy bomb.
The lithium hydride had been our fuel as well as our main protection against radiation.
A simple synthesis utilizing lithium aluminum hydride is presented in this report.
But those cores, taken from their cocoons of lithium hydride and the inner baths of deuterium, could still fuel a reactor.
It was a year before he found anything worth spitting at, and even that was only a scratchy handful of lepidolite, lithium ore.
There was lepidolite here, chock-full of lithium and run through with gallium as well.
And Lithia Forrester went back to explaining how she could have cured poor General Dorfwill if she had simply had time to work with him.
Williams, known to Lithia Forrester as Remo Donaldson, decided on the direct approach.
His was a concentrated not-staring, and what he specifically was not staring at was Lithia Forrester.
He was also sure that Lithia Forrester attacked like that Why was it that most women and some men used sex as a weapon?
Remo had left, Lithia Forrester sat down at her desk for long minutes, thinking.
Remo had laid it out to Lithia Forrester in that first interview, telling her he was going to kill her, inviting her to move against him.