Lithium. Samples of the alkali metal lithium (Li). Lithium has many uses. Some lithium salts are useful as a class of mood stabilizing drugs; lithium and its compounds have commercial applications,including heat-resistant glass and ceramics,high strength-to-weight alloys used in aircraft,and lithium batteries. It also has important links to nuclear physics: the splitting of lithium atoms was the first man-made form of a nuclear reaction,and lithium deuteride serves as the fusion fuel in staged thermonuclear weapons | |
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