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A lithium battery is made of lithium compounds not raw lithium. Expecting it to react the same way as pure lithium is a profound misunderstanding of basic chemi
by bananabreakfast 7y ago
A lithium battery is made of lithium compounds not raw lithium. Expecting it to react the same way as pure lithium is a profound misunderstanding of basic chemistry.
- jolmg 7y agoYou know, you could have left it at the first sentence. There's no need to incorrectly assume what my expectations were or the source of the misunderstanding.
- matt-attack 7y agoKind of like when people commonly refer to table salt as “sodium”. Sodium is a highly caustic and reactive metal. The metal sodium is profoundly different than the salt called sodium chloride. Sharing a specific type of element means nothing when comparing compounds.