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Video: What happens if you add metallic lithium to a glass of 7-Up? First, it bubbles Berocca. Then, it starts to heat up and boil. As it does so, the colour changes: to green, yellowish-brown and reddish brown, until it is pretty much black sludge.
Yesterday, The New York Times published a provocative opinion piece by a Cornell medical school professor that argued for adding lithium to our drinking water. It’s an interesting idea! It is not, however, a new one. In fact, one of our favourite soft drinks used to contain the mood stabilising…
The tobacco mosaic virus is a destructive beast infecting over a hundred different species of plants, including tomatoes. But it may have a weird eco benefit: Incorporated into lithium batteries, it can increase storage capacity 10 times.
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