Talk:Lithium/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

What does the Lewis Dot Diagram and model of the shell look like?

Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:244:4801:8C00:9102:2100:ABFF:1A5 (talk) 21:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Suggeseted edit to Occurrence - astronomical.

at the bottom of the astronomical part of occurrence it says:

"On 27 May 2020, astronomers reported that classical novae explosions are the galactic producers of lithium."

I think this should be carified to say:

"On 27 May 2020, astronomers reported that classical novae explosions are the galactic producers of lithium-7."

my reasoning is based on this qoute:

"The studies reported in this paper confirm that a TNR on a CO WD overproduces 7Be with respect to solar material and in amounts that imply that such CNe are responsible for a significant amount of galactic 7Li. In contrast, 6Li is produced by spallation in the interstellar medium (Fields 2011), and its abundance in the solar system should not correlate with 7Li. Hernanz (2015) gives an excellent discussion of the cosmological importance of detecting 7Li in nova explosions. We return to this comparison in Section 5.1."

from: (which is source 35 on the lithium page)

(appologies in advance if I have broken any terms or rules, this isnt my area of expertise)

Jon Willetts (talk) 13:40, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

 Done Good catch, the quote you mentioned here indeed specifies lithium-7. I updated the article accordingly. ComplexRational (talk) 20:43, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

References

Reserves

This is off topic although could anyone assist in checking that the following discussion was added to the lithium talk page ""Reserves" section needs to be re-researched and rewritten in some parts as some of this information is 10 years old" Could you confirm that the discussion was added to the lithium talk page? I'm not sure if it just didn't publish and that I should republish. I don't want to duplicate discussion Thanks in advance to anyone's help on this. I'm new ---- IbisSun (talk) 08:23, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

The Reserves Section states:

Worldwide identified reserves in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 were estimated by the US Geological Survey (USGS) to be 14 million, 16 million, 14 million and 17 million tonnes, respectively.[48]

This is as good as it can get. Only 10 years old is the study that the lithium reserves are not limiting the battery production. That should not have changed a lot. --Stone (talk) 08:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Environmental issues section needs rewrite

The current Environmental issues section of the Lithium page should either be excised or entirely rewritten with much better citations (3 provided below for starters).

The Environmental issues section only discusses lithium brine, and its writing is not up to standard. Most of its text cites Volkswagon, a source with a clear conflict of interest. The New York Times citation is misrepresentative of the actual article, and especially the statement "net environmental impacts may thus be positive" is a conclusion not present in the NYT citation at all.

The UNCTAD report on the issue is quite clear and could be quoted verbatim for the Environmental issues section (see p46 of the below linked PDF): "The two forms of lithium mining (brine and rock extraction) also present social and environmental risks... The mining industry depends on a large amount of groundwater in one of the driest desert regions in the world to pump out brines from drilled wells. Some estimates show that approximately 1.9 million litres of water is needed to produce a tonne of lithium. In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, lithium and other mining activities consumed 65 per cent of the region’s water... As the mining sites overlap with nature conservation areas, mining activities have been responsible for ecosystem degradation and landscape damage... Lithium rock mining also presents significant environmental risks. Breathing lithium dust or alkaline lithium compounds irritates respiratory tracts and prolonged exposure to lithium can cause fluid to build-up in the lungs, leading to pulmonary oedema. As demand for lithium increases and production is tapped from deeper rock mines and brines, the challenges of mitigating environmental risk will also increase."

https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/ditccom2019d5_en.pdf https://investingtrends.com/APHLF/the-green-energy-revolution-is-creating-massive-global-demand-for-lithium-5/?utm_campaign=APHLF_SPG&utm_source=10301&utm_medium=email&utm_content=luxury

Wired and National Geographic also both have fairly recent articles about the impact of lithium mining on the environment, in particular contaminated water which can destroy aquatic ecosystems, significant water table impact, and refining byproduct disposal. Summaries from these articles would be a much better starting point for a rewrite of this section.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/lithium-is-fueling-technology-today-at-what-cost/

AlternateCurrent (talk) 17:16, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

I have added the above citations to Lithium-ion_battery#Environmental_impact_and_recycling in an edit to the second paragraph. If this page's section is brought up to standard, it would be good to add a See Also to the battery page.

AlternateCurrent (talk) 17:21, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

 Done Pulled in the text from the Lithium-ion battery section and added a reference. Eliminated the offending text under the reasoning given at top as nobody has posted a defense of it in the 6 weeks since I started this Talk section. AlternateCurrent (talk) 19:18, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Pie Chart for Applications is Wrong

The graph that is there under the application section does not match with the numbers presented below. This needs to be updated to be uniform. Anyways the statistics used is for 2011 which is more than one decade ago, maybe new statistics can be found.

Kash Up (talk) 17:23, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 June 2021

Please consider an addition to the last paragraph of "Terrestrial" section:

Another extraction method under consideration in Cornwall is by mining the rock lithium mica granite to obtain lithium carbonate.

References

Thanks.

217.155.32.221 (talk) 13:43, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

 Not done. At this stage, it's mostly speculation on how the lithium could be mined, and this section is about terrestrial sources of lithium, not how it's mined. I've done a rewrite of the paragraph in question. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (talk) 17:40, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for looking—perhaps it was a bit specific for a general article lie this.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 19:57, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 August 2021

Text and references regarding the lithium test in brown dwarfs, as well as lithium detections in low-mass companions of compact relativistic objects are not accurate and need to be revised Anakleto13 (talk) 00:39, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:45, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Atomic structure

Why doesn't this article describe the normal atomic structure, e.g. like Helium's page "Helium is composed of two electrons in atomic orbitals surrounding a nucleus containing two protons and (usually) two neutrons. " As the page is semi protected I can't add it but this quote is referenced: "Lithium has 3 protons, 3 electrons and 4 neutrons".https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Supplemental_Modules_and_Websites_(Inorganic_Chemistry)/Descriptive_Chemistry/Elements_Organized_by_Block/1_s-Block_Elements/Group__1%3A_The_Alkali_Metals/Z003_Chemistry_of_Lithium_(Z3) 51.6.235.68 (talk) 00:07, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 March 2022

Please remove this little bit

95 USD/kg (or US$43/lb)

and add this

U$95/kg (or US$43/lb)

Either "US$number" or "number USD" is correct, but using both together doesn't look right. 49.198.51.54 (talk) 19:20, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

 Done ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:28, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

What is 230 billion tonnes?

"Lithium content of seawater is very large and is estimated as 230 billion tonnes" What is billion? Is it 1000 000 000 or 1000 000 000 000? Voproshatel (talk) 06:15, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

@Voproshatel: Very good question. The vast majority of the articles on Wikipedia are in the short scale, where a billion is 10⁹. So the figure is 2.3×10¹¹ t. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:52, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

"The vast majority" is not "only". In the English-speaking field of Wikipedia there are not enough rules about the use of a numerical scale. In true (British) English, long scale is used. --Voproshatel (talk) 12:26, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Voproshatel, the UK officially converted to the short scale in 1974 and I personally have never seen the long scale in any publication since, as your link suggests. See Billion for history. At least Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA are all short scale. So, the answer is 230,000,000,000t Ex nihil ^(talk) 11:56, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

References

"Lithium compound" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Lithium compound and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 28#Lithium compound until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 00:02, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

needs a section on lithium exposure and obesity

this is a known thing, separate from prescription lithium 2601:645:100:8380:0:0:0:DFE5 (talk) 02:04, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable medical source about this hypothesis? Note that popular science coverage, such as in news media, is not acceptable for medical topics. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:37, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

A 2022 review indicates there is no effect on body weight during lithium therapy for bipolar disorder, edited into the article here. Zefr (talk) 02:43, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 February 2023

Add in this table the reserves of Lithium found in India 2405:201:4004:F03F:4903:BDBE:BCA1:B1D3 (talk) 14:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:21, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

India finds 5.9 Million Metric Tonnes of Lithium Reserves in Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir

Geological Survey of India has for the first time established Lithium inferred resources (G3) of 5.9 million tonnes in Salal-Haimana area of Reasi District of Jammu & Kashmir (UT) on 09 February 2023. This makes India the country with Second Largest Lithium Reserves in the world. Hemshailabhthe1 (talk) 18:39, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

References

Wiki Education assignment: ERTH 4303 Resources of the Earth

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 13 January 2023 and 15 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): LazerRocDoc (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Tnmanning, Eeclem.

— Assignment last updated by ChloejWard (talk) 03:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Lithium Isotopes

It's been known for almost a decade that Lithium 7 is produced in ordinary novae. (Actually it's beryllium 7 that's produced and it decays to Lithium 7.)98.183.98.6 (talk) 15:20, 9 March 2023 (UTC)Syd Henderson

Semi-protected edit request on 24 March 2023

Typo. "It air it oxidizes" should be changed to "In air it oxidizes" Gfanari (talk) 13:41, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done M.Bitton (talk) 13:44, 24 March 2023 (UTC)