Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) The lithium salt of carbonic acid, Li2CO3, used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics, and medically, in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
WordNet
n. a white powder (LiCO3) used in manufacturing glass and ceramics and as a drug; the drug (trade names Lithane or Lithonate or Eskalith) is used to treat some forms of depression and manic episodes of manic-depressive disorder [syn: Lithane, Lithonate, Eskalith]
Wikipedia
Lithium carbonate is an inorganic compound, the lithium salt of carbonate with the formula . This white salt is widely used in the processing of metal oxides.
For the treatment of bipolar disorder, it is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medication needed in a basic health system.
Usage examples of "lithium carbonate".
Well, he said to himself, that ought to wash out everything bonded at a cellular level, including the lithium carbonate, it’.
Well, he said to himself, that ought to wash out everything bonded at a cellular level, including the lithium carbonate, it's going out as fast as it comes in.
Chlorpromazine, thioridazine, haloperidol, clozapine, di-azepam, alprazolam, lithium carbonate.
Or -- and this right now is the Prince Charming hope of the medical profession -- lithium carbonate, if taken by the disturbed patient, will limit an otherwise overabundant production or release of the hormone noradrenaline, which, most of all, acts to cause irrational thoughts and behavior of a socially unacceptable sort.
An even more striking example of such chemotherapy is the use of lithium carbonate in the treatment of manic depressives.
This reminded him of the lithium scam hed run on Pesmenben IVtheyd salted the dunes there with lithium carbonate, to con the Imperial governor into leasing the planet.