Unlike Australia, where lithium is extracted from hard-rock mines, Chile’s lithium is found in lithium brine deposits. The Salar de Atacama salt flat in Chile generates roughly half the revenue ...

Lithium isotopes, lithium-6, and lithium-7, can both be used for breed tritium, but the reaction with lithium-6 is much more ...

Demand for lithium is rising due to its use in batteries for mobile devices, cars and clean energy storage. Securing access ...

What does that mean exactly, to process lithium? Like what are U.S. companies ... but your reporting has found that Chinese companies aren’t waiting around for that to happen.

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...

Above each house in the village, shimmering in the evening sun, these black flags represent the Indigenous Lickanantay people's resistance to the lithium mining that many say is tearing their ...

The Shevchenkivske lithium deposit contains high concentrations of spodumene — the primary lithium-bearing mineral used in ...

Scientists from Skoltech, in collaboration with French researchers, have made an exciting discovery that could lead to better ...

Lithium, whose silvery-white colour tarnishes on oxidation when exposed to air, is the most electropositive metal (−3.04 V versus a standard hydrogen electode), the lightest (M = 6.94 g mol −1 ...