# lithium
## English
### Etymology

From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɪθi.əm/, enPR: lĭth'ēəm
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

lithium (countable and uncountable, plural lithiums)
* (uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3. It is a soft, silvery metal.
** 2019, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in Guardian.:Already, beautiful places are being wrecked by an electric vehicle resource rush. Lithium mining, for example, is now poisoning rivers and depleting groundwater from Tibet to Bolivia.
* (countable) A single atom of this element.
* (pharmacology, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used as a mood stabiliser to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
** 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:There's more: Part of the reason I am so meek is that I stopped taking my lithium a few weeks before. It's not that I have a death wish, and it's not that I'm like Axl Rose and think that lithium makes me less manly (he supposedly stopped taking it after his first wife told him that his dick wasn't as hard as it used to be and that sex with him was lousy; […] ).
** 2008, Barbara Kozier, Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 191:Lithium has been used as a mood stabiliser for 50 years but its action mechanism is still unclear.
* (countable) A lithium battery.

#### Derived terms

* butyllithium
* dilithium
* lithium-6
* lithium-7
* lithium acetate
* lithium aluminium hydride
* lithium aluminohydride
* lithium aluminum hydride
* lithium amide
* lithium battery
* lithium borohydride
* lithium bromide
* lithium carbonate
* lithium chloride
* lithium citrate
* lithium deuteride
* lithium diisopropylamide
* lithium-drifted silicon detector
* lithium economy
* lithium fluoride
* lithium hexafluorophosphate
* lithium hydride
* lithium hydroxide
* lithium iodide
* lithium-ion battery
* lithium ion battery
* lithium metaborate
* lithium naphthalene
* lithium naphthalide
* lithium niobate
* lithium nitrate
* lithium nitride
* lithium orotate
* lithium oxide
* lithium oxybutyrate
* lithium perchlorate
* lithium peroxide
* lithium soap
* lithium stearate
* lithium sulfate
* lithium sulfide
* lithium sulphate
* lithium sulphide
* lithium tantalate
* lithium titanate oxide battery
* lithium triborate
* methyllithium
* organo-lithium
* organolithium
* phenyllithium
* trilithium
* vinyllithium
* yttrium lithium fluoride

#### Related terms

* -lite
* lith-
* -lith
* lithate, lithiate
* lithia
* lithian
* lithiated
* lithic
* lithiophilite
* lithiophorite
* litho-

#### Translations
### References

* Lithium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from Latin lithium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈliːtɪjum]
* Hyphenation: li‧thium

### Noun

lithium n
* lithium

#### Declension
## Danish
### Noun

lithium
* Alternative spelling of litium
** 2015, Peter C. Gøtzsche, Dødelig psykiatri og organiseret fornægtelse, Art People, →ISBN:Lithium er meget giftigt, og dets serumkoncentration skal overvåges.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 16:Batteriet i pacemakeren indeholder i de fleste tilfælde grundstoffet lithium.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1862, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi samt disse videnskabers anvendelse, page 6:Idet nu Kalium , Lithium og Barium efterhaanden forflygtigedes, forsvandt deres Farvelinier i den angivne Rækkefølge , ...(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Ultimately from Swedish litium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈli.tiˌʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: li‧thi‧um

### Noun

lithium n (uncountable)
* lithium [from mid-19th c.]

#### Derived terms

* lithiumcarbonaat
* lithiumtherapie

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /li.tjɔm/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

lithium m (uncountable)
* lithium

#### Derived terms

* tétrahydruroaluminate de lithium

### Further reading

* “lithium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Noun

lithium (uncountable)
* lithium

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈli.tʰi.um/, [ˈlʲɪt̪ʰiʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.ti.um/, [ˈliːt̪ium]

### Noun

lithium n (genitive lithiī); second declension
* (New Latin, chemistry) lithium

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).