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English[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Li | |
| Previous: helium (He) | |
| Next: beryllium (Be) | |
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lithium (countable and uncountable, plural lithiums)
- (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 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.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
- (pharmacology, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used as a mood stabiliser to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
- 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:
- There's more: Part of the reason I am so meek is that I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. It's not that I have a death wish, and it's not that I'm like Axl Rose and think that lithium makes me less manly (he supposedly stopped taking it after his first wife told him that his dick wasn't as hard as it used to be and that sex with him was lousy; […] ).
- A lithium battery.
Derived terms[edit]
- butyllithium
- dilithium
- lithium-6
- lithium-7
- lithium acetate
- lithium aluminium hydride
- lithium aluminohydride
- lithium aluminum hydride
- lithium amide
- lithium battery
- lithium borohydride
- lithium bromide
- lithium carbonate
- lithium chloride
- lithium citrate
- lithium deuteride
- lithium diisopropylamide
- lithium-drifted silicon detector
- lithium economy
- lithium fluoride
- lithium hexafluorophosphate
- lithium hydride
- lithium hydroxide
- lithium iodide
- lithium ion battery
- lithium-ion battery
- lithium metaborate
- lithium naphthalene
- lithium naphthalide
- lithium niobate
- lithium nitrate
- lithium nitride
- lithium orotate
- lithium oxide
- lithium oxybutyrate
- lithium perchlorate
- lithium peroxide
- lithium soap
- lithium stearate
- lithium sulfate
- lithium sulfide
- lithium tantalate
- lithium titanate oxide battery
- lithium triborate
- methyllithium
- organolithium
- organo-lithium
- phenyllithium
- trilithium
- vinyllithium
- yttrium lithium fluoride
Related terms[edit]
terms related to "lithium"
Translations[edit]
chemical element
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treatment for mental disorders
References[edit]
- Lithium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
Czech[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Li | |
| Previous: helium (He) | |
| Next: berylium (Be) | |
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lithium n
Declension[edit]
Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
lithium
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 16:
- Batteriet i pacemakeren indeholder i de fleste tilfælde grundstoffet lithium.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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 , ...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Dutch[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Li | |
| Previous: helium (He) | |
| Next: beryllium (Be) | |
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Swedish litium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lithium n (uncountable)
- lithium [from mid-19th c.]
Derived terms[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lithium m (uncountable)
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Further reading[edit]
- “lithium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
lithium (uncountable)
Latin[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Li | |
| Previous: helium (He) | |
| Next: beryllium (Be) | |
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.tʰi.um/, [ˈlʲɪt̪ʰiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ti.um/, [ˈliːt̪ium]
Noun[edit]
lithium n (genitive lithiī); second declension
Declension[edit]
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 |
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