lithium

See also: Lithium

English

Chemical element
Li
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Next: beryllium (Be)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĭth'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈlɪθi.əm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

lithium (countable and uncountable, plural lithiums)

2. (uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3. It is a soft, silvery metal.
   • 2019, George Monbiot, Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out in the Guardian.

     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.

3. (countable) A single atom of this element.
4. (pharmacology, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
5. 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
• lith-
• litho-
• -lite
• -lith

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: litium (af)
• Albanian: litiumi m (definite), litium m
• Amharic: ሊቲየም (litiyäm)
• Arabic: لِيثْيُوم‎ m (liṯyum)
• Aragonese: litio
• Armenian: լիթիում (hy) (litʿium)
• Asturian: litiu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: litium
• Basque: litioa
• Belarusian: лі́тый m (lítyj)
• Bengali: লিথিযাম (lithijam)
• Breton: litiom (br)
• Bulgarian: ли́тий (bg) m (lítij)
• Burmese: လီသီယမ် (lisiyam)
• Catalan: liti (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鋰, 锂 (lei⁵)

  Hakka: 鋰, 锂 (lî)

  Literary Chinese: 鋰

  Mandarin: 鋰 (zh), 锂 (zh) (lǐ)

  Min Dong: 鋰, 锂 (lī)

  Min Nan: 鋰, 锂 (lí)

• Chuvash: лити (liti)
• Cornish: lythyum
• Corsican: litiu m
• Czech: lithium (cs) m
• Danish: lithium (da)
• Dutch: lithium (nl) n
• Esperanto: litio (eo)
• Estonian: liitium (et)
• Faroese: litium n
• Finnish: litium (fi)
• French: lithium (fr) m
• Friulian: liti
• Galician: litio (gl)
• Georgian: ლითიუმი (litiumi)
• German: Lithium (de) n

  Central Franconian: Lithium

• Greek: λίθιο (el) n (líthio)
• Haitian Creole: lityòm
• Hawaiian: likiuma
• Hebrew: לִיתְיוּם‎ (he) m (lityúm)
• Hindi: लघ्वातु (laghvātu)
• Hungarian: lítium (hu)
• Icelandic: litín (is) n, liþín (is) n, litíum n
• Ido: litio (io)
• Indonesian: litium (id)
• Interlingua: lithium
• Irish: litiam (ga) m
• Italian: litio (it) m
• Japanese: リチウム (ja) (richiumu)
• Javanese: litium
• Kannada: ಲಥಯಮ (lathayama)
• Kashubian: lët m
• Kazakh: литий (kk) (lïtïy)
• Korean: 리튬 (ko) (rityum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lîtyûm

• Kyrgyz: литий (litiy)
• Latin: lithium (la)
• Latvian: litijs (lv) m
• Lingala: litu 9a
• Lithuanian: litis (lt)
• Low German: lithium
• Luxembourgish: Lithium
• Macedonian: литиум (litium)
• Malay: litium (ms)
• Malayalam: ലിഥിയം (lithiyaṃ)
• Maltese: litju m
• Manx: litçhey
• Maori: konukōhatu
• Mongolian: лити (liti)
• Norwegian: litium (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: litium (nn)

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

  Cyrillic: литијум m, литиј m

  Roman: litijum m, litij (sh) m

• Sicilian: lìtiu
• Sinhalese: ලිතියම් (litiyam)
• Slovak: lítium (sk) n
• Slovene: litij (sl)
• Spanish: litio (es) m
• Sundanese: litium
• Swahili: lithi
• Swedish: litium (sv) n
• Tagalog: lityo
• Tajik: литий (tg) (litiy)
• Tamil: மென்னியம் (meṉṉiyam)
• Thai: ลิเทียม (th) (lí-tîiam)
• Tibetan: རྡོ་རྫས། (rdo rdzas)
• Turkish: lityum (tr)
• Turkmen: litiý
• Ukrainian: лі́тій m (lítij)
• Urdu: لتھیئم‎
• Uyghur: لىتىي‎ (litiy)
• Uzbek: litiy (uz)

  Cyrillic: литий (uz)

• Vietnamese: lithi, liti
• Volapük: litin (vo)
• Welsh: lithiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: litium (fy) n
• Yiddish: ליטיום‎ m (lityum)

treatment for mental disorders

• Bulgarian: ли́тий (bg) m (lítij)
• Hindi: लघ्वातु (laghvātu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литиј m

  Roman: litij (sh) m

• Spanish: litio (es) m

References

• Lithium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

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Czech

Chemical element
Li
Previous: helium (He)
Next: berylium (Be)

Etymology

From Latin lithium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːtɪjum]
• Hyphenation: li‧thium

Noun

lithium n

1. lithium

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	lithium	lithia
genitive	lithia	lithií
dative	lithiu	lithiím
accusative	lithium	lithia
vocative	lithium	lithia
locative	lithiu	lithiích
instrumental	lithiem	lithii

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Danish

Noun

lithium

1. Alternative spelling of litium
   • 2015, Peter C. Gøtzsche, Dødelig psykiatri og organiseret fornægtelse, Art People →ISBN

     Lithium er meget giftigt, og dets serumkoncentration skal overvåges.

   • 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse →ISBN, page 16

     Batteriet i pacemakeren indeholder i de fleste tilfælde grundstoffet lithium.

   • 1862, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi samt disse videnskabers anvendelse, page 6

     Idet nu Kalium , Lithium og Barium efterhaanden forflygtigedes, forsvandt deres Farvelinier i den angivne Rækkefølge , ...

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Dutch

Chemical element
Li
Previous: helium (He)
Next: beryllium (Be)

Etymology

Ultimately from Swedish litium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.tiˌʏm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: li‧thi‧um

Noun

lithium n (uncountable)

1. lithium [from mid-19th c.]

Derived terms

• lithiumcarbonaat
• lithiumtherapie

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.tjɔm/

• Audio

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• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

lithium m (uncountable)

1. lithium

Derived terms

• tétrahydruroaluminate de lithium

Further reading

• “lithium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingua

Noun

lithium (uncountable)

1. lithium

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Latin

Chemical element
Li
Previous: helium (He)
Next: beryllium (Be)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.tʰi.um/, [ˈlɪt̪ʰiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ti.um/, [ˈliːt̪ium]

Noun

lithium n (genitive lithiī); second declension

1. (New Latin, chemistry) lithium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lithium	lithia
Genitive	lithiī	lithiōrum
Dative	lithiō	lithiīs
Accusative	lithium	lithia
Ablative	lithiō	lithiīs
Vocative	lithium	lithia