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Lithium is a pretty volatile chemical though. Does the 50% more common take into account the fact that some lithium blows up?
by brianwawok 3y ago
Lithium is a pretty volatile chemical though. Does the 50% more common take into account the fact that some lithium blows up?
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoDoes the ore blow up often?
- Arrath 3y agoI suppose it depends on if blasting is utilized at a given lithium ore production site.
- frabert 3y agoIs lithium normally mined in its elemental form? If not, its volatility as an ore might be wildly less than in its metallic form
- Legend2440 3y agoEssentially no metals are mined in their pure elemental form - only the noble metals like gold or platinum.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoNative copper exists. Sometimes even to a minable degree, as with the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.
- adonovan 3y agoThat “blowing up” already happen billions of years ago. Lithium salts (ore) is what is left when lithium violently oxidizes.
- kadoban 3y agoLithium isn't found as a pure element, if that's what you mean. It's part of minerals bound up into stable molecules. So it won't blow up. It's very hard to find anything volatile in nature, pretty much by definition. Exceptions are things that are continually generated, eg you can find reactive oxygen in nature because plants keep making more. That or things that are only volatile once you purify or transform them in some way.