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Lithium: Less Is More, August 2020, Vol. 16, No. 4
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Lithium is concentrated in Earth’s upper continental crust and is an essential constituent of 122 mineral species with the greatest mineralogical diversity found in pegmatites. Lithium occurs naturally in two isotopes, 6Li and 7Li, which are readily fractionated, thus becoming sensitive to geological and environmental processes.
Lithium: Less Is More
August 2020, Vol. 16, No. 4
Lithium is concentrated in Earth’s upper continental crust and is an essential constituent of 122 mineral species with the greatest mineralogical diversity found in pegmatites. Lithium occurs naturally in two isotopes, 6Li and 7Li, which are readily fractionated, thus becoming sensitive to geological and environmental processes. Closed-basin brines (58%) and pegmatites plus related granites (26%) constitute the main sources of exploitable lithium worldwide. Rechargeable batteries that take advantage of lithium’s light weight and high electrochemical potential offer the greatest potential benefit to the most people. Lithium compounds are also used to control bipolar disorder. In a word, life as we know it at the start of the 21st century would not be possible without lithium.
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