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lithium

Best crossword clue

"Light alkali metal"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɪθi.əm/Part of speech nounSorted hiilmtuStarts with LEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Light metal used in batteries

Word origin

From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.

Used in a sentence

  • The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.
  • 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.
  • It seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium.

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