Lithium Carbonate
Formula: Li2Co3
Molecular Weight: 73.89 amu
Melting Point: 7230C
Boiling point: 13100C
At room temperature it is a solid
Molecular
Molecular Geometry: Crystal Sructure
Characteristics: Used medically as mood stabilizing drug.
Used as: Fireworks, because it creats glowing red flames and sparks.
Additional Info the use of lithium salts to treat mania was rediscovered by the Australian psychiatrist Jhon Cade in 1949, who proposed lithium was a tranquilizer.
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