this is for school and i really need some answers
2007-10-26 07:38:37 · 5 answers · asked by brwn_pssn 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Lithium is perscribed to people with psychotic disorders, including manic depression. It also was used historically to treat gout (which is a funny word.) As an anti-depressant, it's effects are proven over and over again. People aren't really sure why it works, it just does.
Lithium is usually mined from a lithium-bearing feldspar named Spodumene (which is a funny word too).
Lithium has a huge heat capacity, and is pretty good in batteries. That's not really funny. Sorry.
Ummm... Nirvana has a song named lithium, that really has nothing to do with the element at all.
2007-10-26 11:04:27 · answer #1 · answered by naturalplastics 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, ok, this might be mildly amusing: the Stewart Lithia mine in Pala, California, which was for a while the largest producer of lithium in the United States, was originally located because the miners had mistaken the pink lithium ore, lepidolite, for the red mercury ore, cinnabar.
That's not VERY funny, I know, but perhaps it would be funnier if it weren't about lithium, since it's well known that lithium makes our highs lower and our lows higher.
2007-10-26 18:03:07 · answer #2 · answered by pegminer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darned if I could think of anything funny about lithium at all! So I did a quick scan of the wikipedia article and found: "Lithium chloride and lithium bromide are extremely hygroscopic and frequently used as desiccants." Now I don't know about you, but that did tickle my funny bone a little.
Who gave you that question???
2007-10-26 15:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by Brant 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I see nothing funny about lithium. Look up lithium on the internet.
2007-10-26 14:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by justme 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is the most actively metallic metal
2007-10-26 16:43:33 · answer #5 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋