Salar de Olaroz Lithium Mine, Argentina July 5, 2015. Credit: Planet Labs, Inc./Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Lithium may be the lightest of all metals, but demand for it has been extremely heavy in recent years. That’s because lithium is a major player in the transition to clean energy: a ...
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