lithium

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English

Chemical element
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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɪθiəm/

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Etymology

From New Latin lithium, from lithia (in reference to Ancient Greek λίθος (lithos, “stone”)) + -ium.

Noun

lithium (countable and uncountable; plural lithiums)

1. (uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3.
2. (pharmacology, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
3. A lithium battery.

Derived terms

terms derived from "lithium"

butyllithium dilithium lithium-6 lithium-7 lithium acetate lithium aluminium hydride lithium battery lithium bromide lithium carbonate lithium chloride lithium citrate lithium deuteride lithium diisopropylamide lithium-drifted silicon detector lithium economy lithium fluoride lithium hydride lithium hydroxide lithium iodide lithium ion battery lithium naphthalide

lithium niobate lithium nitrate lithium nitride lithium orotate lithium oxide lithium oxybutyrate lithium perchlorate lithium soap lithium stearate lithium sulfate, lithium sulphate lithium sulfide, lithium sulphide lithium tantalate lithium triborate methyllithium organolithium paralithium phenyllithium trilithium vinyllithium yttrium lithium fluoride

Related terms

terms related to "lithium"

lithate, lithiate lithia lithian lithiated

lithic lithiophilite lithiophorite

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: litium (af)
• Albanian: litiumi (sq)
• Arabic: ليثيوم (ar) (líθyum) m
• Aragonese: litio (an)
• Armenian: լիթիում (hy) (lit‘ium)
• Asturian: litiu (ast)
• Basque: litioa (eu)
• Belarusian: лiтый (be) (lítyj) m
• Bengali: লিথিযাম (bn)
• Breton: litiom (br)
• Bulgarian: литий (bg) (lítij) m
• Catalan: liti (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋰 (cmn), 锂 (cmn) (lǐ)

  Min Nan: li (nan)

• Chuvash: лити
• Cornish: lythyum (kw)
• Corsican: litiu (co)
• Czech: lithium (cs) m
• Danish: lithium (da)
• Dutch: lithium (nl) n
• Esperanto: litio (eo)
• Estonian: liitium (et)
• Faroese: lithium (fo)
• Finnish: litium (fi)
• French: lithium (fr) m
• Friulian: liti
• Galician: litio (gl)
• Georgian: ლითიუმი (ka) (litiumi)
• German: Lithium (de) n
• Greek: λίθιο (el) (líthio) n
• Haitian Creole: lityòm
• Hawaiian: likiuma
• Hebrew: ליתיום (he) (lityum)
• Hindi: लघ्वातु (hi) (laghvaatu)
• Hungarian: lítium (hu)
• Icelandic: litín (is) n, liþín (is) n, litíum (is) n
• Ido: litio (io)
• Indonesian: litium (id)
• Interlingua: lithium (ia)
• Irish: litiam (ga)
• Italian: litio (it) m
• Japanese: リチウム (ja) (richiumu)
• Javanese: litium (jv)
• Kannada: ಲಥಯಮ (kn)
• Kashubian: lët (csb)
• Kazakh: литий (kk) (litii)

• Korean: 리튬 (ko) (rityum)
• Kurdish: lîtyûm (ku)
• Kölsch: Lithium
• Latin: lithium (la)
• Latvian: litijs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: litis (lt)
• Lojban: roksodna (jbo)
• Low German: lithium (nds)
• Luxembourgish: Lithium (lb)
• Macedonian: литиум (mk) (litium)
• Malay: litium (ms)
• Malayalam: ലിഥിയം (ml)
• Maltese: litju (mt)
• Manx: litçhey (gv)
• Mongolian: лити (mn) (liti)
• Norwegian: litium (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: litium (nn)

• Occitan: liti (oc)
• Persian: لیتیم (fa)
• Polish: lit (pl) m
• Portuguese: lítio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਲਿਥੀਅਮ (pa)
• Quechua: lityu (qu)
• Romanian: litiu (ro) n
• Russian: литий (ru) (lítij) m
• Sanskrit: लिथियम (sa)
• Scottish Gaelic: litiam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литиjум (sh) m, литиj (sh) m

  Roman: litijum (sh) m, litij (sh) m

• Slovak: lítium (sk)
• Slovene: litij (sl)
• Spanish: litio (es) m
• Sundanese: litium (su)
• Swahili: lithi (sw)
• Swedish: litium (sv) n
• Tamil: மென்னியம் (ta) (menniyam)
• Thai: ลิเทียม (th) (lithiam)
• Turkish: lityum (tr)
• Ukrainian: лiтiй (uk) (lítij) m
• Uzbek: литий (uz) (litiy)
• Vietnamese: lithi (vi), liti (vi)
• Volapük: litin (vo)
• Welsh: lithiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: litium (fy)
• Yiddish: ליטיום (yi) (litium) n

treatment for mental disorders

• Bulgarian: литий (bg) (lítij) m
• Hindi: लघ्वातु (hi) (laghvaatu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литиj (sh) m

  Roman: litij (sh) m

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Czech

Noun

lithium n

1. lithium

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
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	Next: beryllium (Be)

Pronunciation

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Noun

lithium n (uncountable)

1. lithium

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /li.tjɔm/

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Noun

lithium m (usually uncountable)

1. lithium

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

lithium (genitive lithiī); n, second declension

1. lithium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	lithium	lithia
genitive	lithiī	lithiōrum
dative	lithiō	lithiīs
accusative	lithium	lithia
ablative	lithiō	lithiīs
vocative	lithium	lithia