| Description |
Soft, white, silvery metal. Reacts slowly with oxygen and
water. Used in alloys (with Al and Mg), greases, batteries, glass,
medicine, and nuclear bombs. Diagnostic tests:
In solution, a lithium will give an intense carmine-red flame test color,
the color somewhat resembling that of the strontium flame but deeper. In
very small quantities it is visible using a diffraction spectroscope.
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