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Lithium

Z: 3
Mass: 6.94
Lifeforce: Fire

Soft enough to cut with a knife, light enough to float on water. And that same metal sits in the battery of the phone you are holding right now, steadying bipolar minds.

A smith's hands strike sparks from glowing embers; the sparks become tiny glowing runners. — Plate · Fire Fire never waits. It *ignites* whatever it touches.

Lithium. Element three. The lightest metal in the universe. Soft enough to cut with a knife, light enough to float on water. Powers every battery in every phone you have ever held. Bipolar minds steady themselves with it.

Lab note · Element three; the lightest metal in the universe.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Li · Big Bang

Born of the Big Bang itself, present since the first three minutes of the cosmos.

3 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

H He Li Be B C N O F Ne Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar K Ca Sc Ti V Cr Mn Fe Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Ge As Se Br Kr Rb Sr Y Zr Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn Sb Te I Xe Cs Ba La Ce Pr Nd Pm Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Hf Ta W Re Os Ir Pt Au Hg Tl Pb Bi Po At Rn Fr Ra Ac Th Pa U Np Pu Am Cm Bk Cf Es Fm Md No Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og

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