LITHIUM
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Lithium is a really cool substance. It's number 3 on the period table. They use it to treat people suffering from bi-polar disorder. Though it doesn't always work. I actually have a sample of Lithium I found on ebay. I couldn't resist. Lithium has a bit of investment and sex appeal. Highly reactive. It has to be protected from atmospheric exposure. They store it in airtight bags as well as they coat in in oils. It's a rather appealing soft grey metal when it's at room temperature. It is the lightest metal on Earth.
It's investment appeal is due to the fact that it is used in batteries, and there is heavy push for the world going toward electric cars rather that makes sense or not. So some investors place their bets that demand for Lithium will go up and supply will go down in the future. And this would be a fairly safe bet I'm thinking. It's in every cell phone battery, it's in every laptop battery. As mentioned before it's in medications for bi-polar disorder. I'm sure it's found in other places.
If substances had personalities Lithium would certainly be pretty bad ass. I've seen videos where Lithium is on fire, and they struggle to put it out. Water certainly will not stop it from burning.
Check out some of these reactions, Video Provided By You Tube Channel (Thoisoi2 - Chemical Experiments!) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvOvVuQcRRI
I love how bright it burns, just like magnesium. When you react it with water you make hydrogen gas, not sure how much you would need to run your car, and I doubt Lithium is cheaper than gasoline, but give it enough time. I have seen people attempt to run their vehicles on hydrogen gas before via creating hydrogen using eletrolysis.
Video provided by You Tube Channel (Supposed To Have Fun) --> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_5ZpZ9vn8) Lots of interesting stuff covered here. Lithium is named after the Greek word Lithos which means stone. Discover by a Johan August Arfwedson in 1817. He gets into where it's located and how it's refined. I'm finding out why it's important not to throw old Lithium batteries into the land fill. That would be crazy considering it's not really the most abundant element going. I'd stockpile old Lithium batteries knowing what I know now. Putting Lithium in the land fill makes as much sense to me as putting copper and silver in the landfill. It's like, no, that shit is going to be worth a fortune and it's already been refined. Well, sometimes it's already been refined. Extracting certain things out of electronics is often cost prohibited. I'm not sure about the Lithium in batteries, but I'm sure there is a video for that. They have a deposit system for empty bottles, so, why not do the same for other things? Cardboard, Lithium, copper,silver,gold,platinum,tires. Typically when someone wants a place to recycle anything it's a game of hide and seek. Might make an interesting side gig to accumulate these kind of things, provide people with a handy guilt free way to get rib of some items.
I'm surprised to find out that they used to put Lithium salts in 7up. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't just been told. Check out the photo:
They certainly did some crazy stuff back in the day. First Cola was laced with cocain and now I'm finding out they used to put Lithium in 7up? Bet you'd be hard pressed to find a bottle of either of these in 2021, I suspect they would be very collectible.
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (Today I Found Out) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v9l9JhG_K4 This guy goes more into the whole Lithium in 7up situation. Turns out Lithium- Citrate was the form of Lithium they put in 7up and is the form they still use to treat people suffering from bi-polar disorder. It was launched in 1929 just in time for the Great Depression. People at that time probably needed this stuff. It was cited as an anti-hangover mix. Now that is interesting. Because the prohibition era in America according to google took place from 7-Jan,1920 to 5-Dec,1933. Talk about the right place at the wrong time 'eh? Simply fascinating people could be so casual about what they put in their bodies. What did they think this stuff was mRNA shots? Cough cough, had to let that slip. I guess in 1950 the party was over for Lithiated Lemon Soda, due to some research showing it could have some potential harmful effects.
Maybe they were right. This publication here covers some of what happens to people that get too much Lithium in their bodies --> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499992/
I guess some people overuse it after it is prescribed to them. Though given the effects it has going by the following video I don't see why they would. Interesting video put out for training ICU's by the looks for it. It turns out the body can't tell the difference between sodium and Lithium. So a patient that is ***hyponatremic*** and taking Lithium would have kidneys that would be prompted to retain sodium and thus they would also be retaining Lithium since the body can't tell sodium and Lithium apart. There is no antidote for Lithium toxicity. So they have to resort to something called hemodialysis to minus Lithium in a hurry. I'm almost tempted to think they could just add Sodium in order to minus Lithium but maybe that isn't fast enough to prevent damage and death in some cases.
(Hyper- Too much) (Hypo- Not enough)(Na is the chemical name for sodium) Therefore
hypo-Na-tremia is low sodium of the blood. Video provided by You Tube Channel (Lecturio Nursing)--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JCUJsbRr8E
She also mentions potassium in the video, which is kind of interesting.
Video leads me to believe that not enough sodium could also cause too much potassium for the same reason as Lithium. Though that wouldn't be likely given how abundance sodium is and how lacking potassium is in most peoples diets.
I covered potassium in a previous post, here it is if you care to check that out --> https://peakd.com/stem/@photonium/potassium-chemically-and-in-the-body-wonderful-and-essential-for-life
Video provided by You Tube Channel (Periodic Videos) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNN1b7xzFw They cover a little more into the 7up situation and dissolve some Lithium into some 7up, do some experimenting and explaining, looks fun.
Since were all into Lithium as a treatment and it's pervasiveness in our culture, check out this song Provided By You Tube Channel (Evanescence) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJGpsL_XYQI
Powerful song. She seems to be singing about reluctance to let go of misery. Quite a notion, counter intuitive to think anyone would want to stay with their misery. Speaks to the contentment familiarity can offer. The saying goes familiarity breeds contempt, but maybe it can also be familiarity breeds content. Contempt and content seem to have allot of duality going on. The visuals in this video are stunning. Notice the falling "snow" it has a uncanny resemblance to elemental Lithium. Little shiny metallic flakes, soft and powerful. One part of the video the metal flakes are black, which is exactly what Lithium looks like after too much exposure to the air. Whoever did the video certainly did well and seemed to have done their homework in paying tribute to Lithium.
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (Periodic Videos) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfS10ArXTBA
Turns out Lithium is involved in making what they call hydrogen bombs. One of the largest explosions mankind is able to create. Though there are radio active particles created and the technology is horrific as the Professor says. Deuterium and tritium are isotopes of hydrogen. Deuterium is hydrogen with an extra neutron. Tritium is hydrogen with two neutrons and one proton and is highly radio active. The first test of a Lithium-deuteride bomb was carried out around 1954, four years after they banned Lithium-citrate in 7up. Absolutely massive explosion, for all you people that enjoy big booms, it doesn't get much larger than this. Four mile wide fire ball according to the video. Radio chemistry is really something else, how they can cause an element to appear that were never present in the initial products of the reaction. In this cause Tritium interacts with deuterium and they release a shit ton of energy and helium is created. Like magic. The only other experiment I know about where they did this was when they exposed Chlorine gas to a particle stream and transmuted some chlorine into argon. How they can hack into the genesis of an atom of an element that didn't exist to start with, I find astounding. Makes me wonder if they could turn platinum into gold. Though given platinum is worth more that wouldn't make so much sense.
I'll drop a periodic table here, I probably should have done this earlier:
Always good to have a table to refer. Notice chlorine is just to the left of argon. Notice where Lithium,hydrogen and helium are. We also covered a bit on sodium,magnesium and potassium, notice how close those all live together on the table.
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (NileRed) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2UQ4-NOP9E
Turns out Lithium carbonate is another form of Lithium they give to people suffering from bi-polar disorder. And this guy actually makes some. It's an interesting process. The second half of the video he actually uses salvaged batteries! Leads me to believe that any supplement or medication that ends in "carbonate" has been reacted with C02, and any supplement or medication that ends in "citrate" has been reacted with citric acid. Simply interesting. Gives an appreciation of all the many processes that go into making things. He ends the video talking about something called The Great Courses Plus. Actually looks pretty appealing. Information offered without all the typical bullshit where they want your 20 year old transcripts and $50,000 of debt. At least that appears to be what it is.
Oh yes, staying on topic, Lithium is the subject going on here LOL
The above photo, I'm using again, screen shot from the You Tube Channel (Periodic Videos). I like to call it the Periodic table of supply. If you check out Lithium, you can see the world supply is not that huge. I'd almost wager to say by looking at it that there is less Lithium than there is gold. Just some food for thought. Throw out your Lithium batteries? I wouldn't. By the looks of one of the last videos, each Lithium battery has Lithium foil inside of it that can be extracted without allot of effort using a pipe cutter. At least that is the case with cylinder shaped batteries. only 0.002% of the Earth crust consists of Lithium.
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (TEDx Talks) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=906URaAZFRw
In this video he gets into the origins of our existence and how Lithium shouldn't exist in terms of "quantum mechanics". He even mentions the music video we watched. He mentions the formation of Lithium in terms of a planets genesis is 1 part in 10 billion, helium fuses to make Lithium rather rarely by the sounds of this. He talks about Lithium's surreal effects on the human brain and how they have yet to explain these effects.
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (DoctorRex,MS2) --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BngnOQTVmzA
He reaffirms that they cannot explain why Lithium is effective at treating certain things. And he digs into the question regarding how it was discovered as a treatment option. The credit for discovering Lithium as a treatment for "psychotic excitement" goes to a Dr.John Frederick Joseph Cade who discovered it's positive effects on rodents somewhat accidentally, this took place around 1948, post WW2. It's initial application was being used to suppress the formation of uric acid crystals. So it had initially already been discovered for that already.
This wikipedia link zooms in on that more if you care to check that out --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cade
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (EVStockChannel)--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-YDMzg2bY
This video covers current Lithium extraction methods and how they are moving toward the more environmentally friendly approach they call Direct Lithium Extraction. Interesting enough I just discovered there is a company right in Alberta Canada that is using Direct Lithium Extraction. If you're a Canadian reader you might find that extra interesting.
Video Provided by You Tube Channel (Standard Lithium)--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XeZ2B9Hi6M
Cool video here. Standard Lithium gives us a quick tour of one of their facilities. Mass scale chemistry going on here. Really something. It's quite apparent they are trying to ramp up Lithium production.
Video provided by Bitchute (Coronavirus Plushie)
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This video takes a whole new angle on Lithium. It makes a few unproven by compelling suggestions.
Such as, they put Lithium and darpa-hydro-gel in PCR tests. It suggested that Lithium effects the pineal gland is adversely effected by Lithium. As I ponder it, Sodium-Fluoride would kind of be in the same chemical family. Lithium and sodium do live rather close on the periodic table. And I have heard the pineal gland described by some people as our "spiritual antenna" or "gateway to the divine". And I have heard it said too that sodium-fluoride is put in drinking water to suppress people pineal glands. I'll take this video with a grain of salt, but I won't entirely dismiss it either. And I guess there have been pushes here and there to get Lithium in peoples water as well as sodium-fluoride. I find it interesting they don't know how Lithium is effective at treating "psychotic excitement". Maybe that is a sign there is something that is being hidden. Such as the origins or autoimmune diseases or cancer cells. Answer to questions like those never seem to arrive in any official capacity.
Oh a hunch I decided to look up Lithium-Fluoride. And low and behold it does actually exist. Not too much of a surprise. It does mention that it's not very soluble in water, which is probably why they never tried putting it into drinking water.
Here's the wikipedia link I found on it --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_fluoride#:~:text=Lithium%20fluoride%20is%20an%20inorganic,much%20less%20soluble%20in%20water.
But yeah, Lithium if nothing else has been a really interesting and thought provoking, element. From 7up to hydrogen bombs, to pop culture, it's roll in the origins of our solar system. There is no shortage of info out there regarding Lithium,if I watched all the videos I think it would take a week of viewing. I hope I have covered all the most important points. For having such a small atomic number it sure is the nucleus of allot of thought and attention.**Bold** Thank you for exploring Lithium with me, I hope you found this entertaining and educational.
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