LithiumMenbers:

Alvaro Peña Camiloaga

Daniel Urcia Rubio

Carlos Uriarte Requejo

José Ignacio Huby Ochoa

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What uses does the

Lithium give us?Uses: batteries, ceramics, lubricants

Obtained From: passing electric

charge through melted lithium chloride,

spodumene

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Who and when was the

Lithium discovered?Date of Discovery: 1817

Discoverer: Johann Arfvedson

Name Origin: From the Greek word lithos

(stone)

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Basic InformationName: Lithium

Symbol: Li

Atomic Number: 3

Atomic Mass: 6.941 amu

Number of Protons/Electrons: 3

Number of Neutrons: 4

Color: silvery

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Interesting Facts

• The lithium is used in the industry to make batteries

like this

And also you can find

batteries of cellphones

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• He was a Swedish chemist and

discoverer of lithium in 1817.

• Arfwedson belonged to a family rich.

• He was a student at the University of

Uppsala in Stockholm 1803

• The chemist Arfwedson Jöns met

Jakob Berzelius, who allowed him

access to his private laboratory. There

he discovered the element lithium in

1817, while analyzing petalite mine.

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Whas the Lithium a

medicine?• Lithium was used as a medicine for various diseases, until settled as

pharmacological agent for bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive, alternating extreme states of euphoria

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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

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