(So named (lithia) in 1818 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius for the element discovered in 1817 by his student A. Arfwedson, Swedish chemist) A soft, silver-white, metallic chemical element, one of the alkali metals and the lightest known metal. It is used in thermonuclear explosives, in metallurgy, etc.
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