#3 on the periodic table, and it is therefore super common in the universe
Number three is actually a bad thing because atoms hate odd numbers and Lithium-7 not only has a lot of odd numbers but it's also in an weird spot which means that not only very few protons and neutrons arranged themselves into Lithium during the Big Bang (they are about a billion times less likely to than for Helium) but also that stars consume more of it than they produce.
The end result is that it's about as abundant as the rare earths, but, what's more, being on the far left of the periodic table implies that Lithium is very reactive and forms salts very easily, so what little is on Earth is all dissolved in the ocean at tiny tiny concentrations unlike the rare earths and metals and so on that you can find in blobs buried somewhere.
Source: physicist. Click here to subscribe to Lithium Facts.
Ooouh! I just assumed that the earlier on the periodic table an element is, the more abundant it would be! Apparently not so simple!
Number three is actually a bad thing... Lithium is very reactive and forms salts very easily
being on the far left of the periodic table
But! I am enough of a leftist to know that only one of these statements can be true! Aha!
Also I will NOT click your subscription gotcha, and so I will never know if the concentration of lithium in the Ocean is high enough to have therapeutic value.
Now, pardon me, I'm back off to the lithium salts mine to hand-powder me some more medicine thank you very much.
Number three is actually a bad thing because atoms hate odd numbers and Lithium-7 not only has a lot of odd numbers but it's also in an weird spot which means that not only very few protons and neutrons arranged themselves into Lithium during the Big Bang (they are about a billion times less likely to than for Helium) but also that stars consume more of it than they produce.
The end result is that it's about as abundant as the rare earths, but, what's more, being on the far left of the periodic table implies that Lithium is very reactive and forms salts very easily, so what little is on Earth is all dissolved in the ocean at tiny tiny concentrations unlike the rare earths and metals and so on that you can find in blobs buried somewhere.
Source: physicist. Click here to subscribe to Lithium Facts.
Ooouh! I just assumed that the earlier on the periodic table an element is, the more abundant it would be! Apparently not so simple!
But! I am enough of a leftist to know that only one of these statements can be true! Aha!
Also I will NOT click your subscription gotcha, and so I will never know if the concentration of lithium in the Ocean is high enough to have therapeutic value.
Now, pardon me, I'm back off to the lithium salts mine to hand-powder me some more medicine thank you very much.
(Thank you very much.)
Oh but Vladimir Ilyich wrote an entire book on those salty ultra-left reactionaries :P
lolololol hahaha :chavez-salute:
That's why it's valuable enough for Elon Musk to benefit from a coup in Bolivia.