Noun: lithium
| Singular | lithium |
| Plural | lithiums |
Sample Sentences
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The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.
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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. [2019, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Guardian.:]
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It seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium.
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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;[…]). [1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:]
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Lithium has been used as a mood stabiliser for 50 years but its action mechanism is still unclear. [2008, Barbara Kozier, Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 191:]
Nouns inflected like lithium
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
λίθος'.
Verbs referencing "lithium"
Finnish Nouns
litium.