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Speaking of lithium batteries, I heard from some guy on the Business News that the world is oversupplied with lithium. There's enough to last for decades, appa

• empath75 10y ago
  It's the second most common element in the universe.
  • evanb 10y ago
    Lithium isn't in the top 10 most abundant chemical elements in the universe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements#Abundance_of_elements_in_the_Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem... ). The most abundant, of course, is hydrogen, making up close to 74% of all the baryonic mass, followed by helium ~24%. Lithium can be fused into heavier elements and the conversion happens efficiently in stellar environments where it is produced. For every 10^6 atoms of silicon, there are only 10^3 atoms of lithium in the Earth's crust ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... ).