{"id":3130,"date":"2023-02-10T07:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T01:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:59:48","slug":"important-facts-about-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/important-facts-about-lithium\/","title":{"rendered":"Important facts about Lithium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key facts about Lithium:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>soft, silvery-white metal that heads group 1, the alkali metals group<\/strong>, of the <strong>periodic table<\/strong> of the elements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has the <strong>lowest density of all metals<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>lightest of the solid elements<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>reacts vigorously with water<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>body-centered cubic crystal structure<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occurrence<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lithium <strong>does not occur as a metal in nature<\/strong> but is found combined in small amounts in igneous rocks.<\/li>\n<li>Lithium is found in <strong>brine deposits and as salts in mineral springs<\/strong>. Its <strong>concentration in seawater is 0.1 part per million<\/strong> (ppm).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Major Reserves:<\/strong> Lithium reserves are <strong>concentrated in the lithium triangle<\/strong> in South America \u2013 <strong>Argentina, Bolivia &amp; Chile<\/strong>, with <strong>50% of the deposits<\/strong> concentrated in these regions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lithium is important in <strong>rechargeable batteries<\/strong> <strong>for mobile phones, laptops<\/strong>, digital cameras, and <strong>electric vehicles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also used in some <strong>non-rechargeable batteries<\/strong> for things like heart pacemakers, toys, and clocks.<\/li>\n<li>Lithium metal is made into <strong>alloys with aluminium and magnesium<\/strong>, <strong>improving their strength<\/strong> and making them lighter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lithium oxide is used in special glasses and glass ceramics<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lithium stearate <\/strong>is used as an all-purpose and <strong>high-temperature lubricant.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lithium carbonate<\/strong> is <strong>used in drugs<\/strong> to treat manic depression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are alkali metals?<\/h3>\n<p>Alkali metals are the chemical elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table. The alkali metals include: lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium.These elements react with water to form hydroxide ions, creating alkaline solutions (pH&gt;7).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/indl-goods\/svs\/metals-mining\/in-a-first-in-country-5-9-million-tonnes-lithium-deposits-found-in-j-k\/articleshow\/97788887.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Lithium deposits found in J&amp;K: Is India&#8217;s EV drive now set to take the fast lane?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium is a soft, silvery-white metal that belongs to the alkali metals group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}