lithia
Noun
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Noun
lithia (uncountable)
- Lithium oxide, Li2O, used in the manufacture of ceramics and glass.
- 1839, Lithium, entry in The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 14, page 43 ↗,
- These substances contain from about five to nearly ten per cent. of lithia in combination with silica, from which it is best separated by the following process of Berzelius: […] .
- 1990, A. Paul, Chemistry of Glasses, page 42 ↗,
- This can be an acute problem with certain glass-ceramics because of the use of large quantities of lithia, in particular, which readily attack the refractories.
- 1996, Peter A. Ciullo, Industrial Minerals and Their Uses: A Handbook and Formulary, page 462 ↗,
- The major source of lithia is lepidolite, the most widespread of the lithia-containing minerals with deposits in the United States, Canada, Rhodesia, South Africa, India, China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
- 1839, Lithium, entry in The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 14, page 43 ↗,
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