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Lithium – Lithium – Lithium – Lítio – リチウム – Литий – 鋰
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Multilingual dictionary
Indo-European
Lithium Latin— Germanic
Litium AfrikaansLithium Danish Lithium German Lithium English Lithium Faroese Lithium Frisian (West) Litín, ²Liþín Icelandic Lithium Luxembourgish Lithium Dutch Litium Norwegian Litium Swedish — Italic
Litio AragoneseLitiumu Aromanian Litiu Asturian Liti Catalan Lítio Spanish Lithium French Liti Friulian Litio Galician Litio Italian Líti Lombard Liti Occitan Lítio Portuguese Litiu Romanian - Moldovan — Slavic
Литий [Litij] BulgarianLitij[um] Bosnian Літый [lityj] Belarusian Lithium Czech Litij Croatian Lët Kashubian Литиум [Litium] Macedonian Lit Polish Литий [Litij] Russian Litium Slovak Litij Slovenian Литијум [Litijum] Serbian Літій [litij] Ukrainian — Baltic
Litis LithuanianLitijs Latvian Lėtis Samogitian — Celtic
Litiom BretonLithiwm Welsh Litiam Gaelic (Irish) Litiam Gaelic (Scottish) Litçhey Gaelic (Manx) Lythyum Cornish — Other Indo-European
Λιθιο [lithio] GreekԼիթիում [lit'ium] Armenian Litium[i] Albanian — Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Lîtyûm KurdishЛитий [litij] Ossetian Литий [Liti'] Tajik — Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
লিথিয়াম [lithiyāma] Bengaliلیتیم [lytym] Persian લિથિયમનો [lithiyamano] Gujarati लिथियम [lithiyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Liitium EstonianLitium Finnish Lítium Hungarian Литий [Litij] Komi Литий [Litij] Mari Лити [liti] Moksha Liitium Võro Altaic
Litium AzerbaijaniЛити [Liti] Chuvash Литий [litij] Kazakh Литий [Litij] Kyrgyz Лити [liti] Mongolian Lityum Turkish لىتىي [litiy] Uyghur Litiy Uzbek Other (Europe)
Litioa Basqueლიტიუმი [litiumi] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
ليثيوم [līthiyūm] Arabicליתיום [lithium] Hebrew Litju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Lî (鋰) Hakkaリチウム [riteumu] Japanese 리튬 [lityum] Korean ลิเทียม [lithiam] Thai Lithi, Liti Vietnamese 鋰 [li3 / lei5] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Litio CebuanoLitium Indonesian Lithium Māori Litium Malay Other Asiatic
ലിഥിയം [lithiyam] Malayalamலித்தியம் [littiyam] Tamil Africa
Litu LingalaLitiamo Sesotho Lithi Swahili North-America
Litio NahuatlSouth-America
Lityu QuechuaCreole
Litimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Litio EsperantoNew names
Lition Atomic ElementsHappiness Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Several chemists had previously failed to investigate the red color petalite imparted to flames, or the puzzling losses during its analysis. Arfwedson found the rock was roughly 80% silica, 17% alumina, and 3% alkali. He found the alkali did not precipitate in tartaric acid like Potassium and was not Magnesium. Calculating its composition by presuming it to be soda resulted in a 5% excess. Two careful repetitions convinced Arfwedson that it was a new element which has a greater capacity to react than the other alkalies. Berzelius wrote to the French chemist, Comte Claude Louis Berthollet (1749-1822) about this discovery and the naming, this letter was copied in Gilbert's Annalen of 1818:
Gilbert adds in a note almost a whole paper on the German name, the grammatical gender etc. In this note, he mentions also the name Lithium for the metal in the alkali Lithon.
The name is derived from the Greek λιθος [lithos] = stone, rock. This name was given because it was discovered from a mineral source whereas the other two common Group 1 elements, Sodium and Potassium, were discovered from plant sources.
Chemistianity 1873
IBYAN
LITHIUM, the lightest solid yet known, Is a white colour'd metal that melts at low heat, It soon oxides in Air, and, chemically, Is closely allied both to Alkali And Alkaline-earth Metals. Lithium Occurs in minute proportions, chiefly Combined as Chloride, in most Spring Waters, In Milk, Tobacco, and also Human Blood; In the Ashes of Plants, and Tryphylline. Further reading
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← Petalite. A rare large piece, 15 x 7 cms and 630 grams.