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Lithium has many uses but the most important uses of lithium are in rechargeable batteries for mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, and electric vehicles. Also, lithium is used in non-rechargeable batteries which are used for things like clocks, heart pacemakers, and toys.
lithium metal is made into alloys with aluminum and also magnesium, this improves the strength of the metal and makes them lighter.  A magnesium-lithium alloy is used for armor plating, while aluminium-lithium alloys are used in aircraft, bicycle frames, and high-speed trains. Lithium hydride is used as a means of storing hydrogen for use as a fuel. Lithium oxide is used in special glasses and glass ceramics, while lithium chloride is one of the most hygroscopic materials known and is used in air conditioning and industrial drying systems (lithium bromide is also used). Lithium can also be used as lithium stearate as an all-purpose and high-temperature lubricant and as lithium carbonate is used in drugs to treat manic depression, its action on the brain is still not fully understood.

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state - at room temperature (25 degrees Celcius), lithium is a solid
color - soft, silver-white element belonging to the alkali metal group of chemical elements
density - 0.534g/cm3, under certain conditions it is the least dense element and the lightest metal
melting point - 180.5 degrees Celcius
boiling point - 1342 degrees Celcius

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Lithium is part of the Group 1 Alkali Metals, these metals are highly reactive, so much that they do not occur in their pure form in nature(see more about this under the sub-heading 'Earth'). The Alkali Metals all have only one electron on their outer shell., making the electron unstable. Lithium for example is ready to lose that one electron in ionic bonding with other elements. to explain more simply would be to say that the singular electron is effectively searching for more electrons to complete the outer shell.

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Unlike other common alkali metals which were discovered from plant material, lithium was discovered from a mineral.
This could be thought to explain the origin of the elements name; from 'lithos' which is Greek for 'stone'. The element Lithium was first discovered by a Brazilian named Joze Bonifacio de Andralda e Silva. It was discovered on the Swedish island of Uto in the 1790's and it was observed that when thrown into a fire, the element would give an intense crimson flame. Then in 1817, Johan August Arfvedson of Stockholm analysed the element and revealed that it contained a previously unknown metal, which he named Lithium. It was noticed that the element he discovered was a new alkali metal and that it was a lighter version of sodium.

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Found - lithium does not occur naturally on earth but is found in the water of many mineral springs and also found combined in small amounts of almost all igneous rocks. the more important minerals containing Lithium are Spodumene, petalite, lepidolite, and amblygonite.
Produced - lithium is currently produced mostly in Chile from brine's (a brine is a solution of water with a strong percentage of salt) that yield lithium carbonate when treated with sodium carbonate.

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symbol - Li                                      neutrons - 4
atomic mass - 6.941                     protons - 3
atomic number - 3                         electrons - 3