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lithium chloride

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.


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Give balanced equations for the overall reaction in the electrolysis of molten lithium chloride and for the reactions occurring at the electrodes.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

It produces mostly potassium compounds but also a viscous liquid, lithium chloride.

From Economist • Jan. 14, 2016

By the 1940s, physicians began to give patients with heart disease lithium chloride as a substitute for regular salt, sodium chloride.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2014

Raines' research group has developed a system that uses an ionic liquid consisting of N,N-dimethylacetamide and lithium chloride, which can dissolve cellulose without altering its chemical structure.

From Nature • Jun. 22, 2011

A spring at Wheal Clifford contained as much as 0.372 gram of lithium chloride per litre.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

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