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   Sammy is a :fox_dance: (theresnotime@iscurrently.live)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 20:30:36 JST Sammy is a :fox_dance:

   um maybe a dumb question but y'know the lithium they mine for batteries..? Is that "the same" lithium as the mood stabiliser..?

   I mean, I know it's the same chemical, but does it directly compete with battery manufacturers? 😅

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     rellik moo (idlestate@toot.cat)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 00:15:06 JST rellik moo

     • goatsarah

     wow. each element is of course unique, but as the lightest metal, lithium's abundance & uses, both chemically & physically, have in recent years really piqued my interest as I learn more about it.

     turns out, in the context of its use as fusion fuel, confusion about the role of lithium-7 elevated the Castle Bravo test to be even more of a specific tragedy than the background tragedy of nuclear weapons development and testing more generally

     Natural lithium is a mixture of lithium-6 and lithium-7 isotopes (with 7.5% of the former). The enriched lithium used in Bravo was nominally 40% lithium-6 (the remainder was the much more common lithium-7, which was incorrectly assumed to be inert).

     from

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

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     rellik moo (idlestate@toot.cat)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 08:13:03 JST rellik moo

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah

     It's the uranium tamper & the primary that'll really set you back tho

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