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Lithium: Legacy of a Light Element |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / IMPACTS |
| Author: Michael Woods |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,563 Words, 16,219 Characters |
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Lithium is beginning its fifth decade of service to mankind as a potent medication that protects millions of people worldwide - perhaps as many as one in 1,500 - from the tragic mood swings of manic-depressive illness. Indeed, its contributions to psychiatry have been so profound and well publicized that it is nearly synonymous with treatment of manic-depressive disorder. Even the scientifically sophisticated may have difficulty naming other major uses for this third-lightest (after a hydrogen and helium) of all elements.
Yet lithium's uses are manifold. The soft, silvery white metal confers desirable properties on a wide range of commercial products, bringing greater efficiency to the processes used in their manufacture. It has played a leading role in the production of bathroom...
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...ther psychiatric and medical conditions. These range from herpes virus infections to that great scourge of American society, cocaine addiction.
Combined with its burgeoning applications in high technology [see "New High-Tech Uses"], this lightweight of the chemical world is almost certain to play an increasingly important role in the real world of the twenty-first century and beyond.
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